“ If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 3.4K
“ It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before… it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 509
“ I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. ”
- Wendell Berry- Copy
- 1K
“ The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 3.5K
“ True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ”
- William Penn- Copy
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“ You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave — win or lose. ”
- Gordie Howe- Copy
- 989
“ Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily. This wol be done at leisure parfitly. ”
- Geoffrey Chaucer- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God — the rest will be given. ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Trees receive a most beautiful burial. Nature takes fallen trees gently to her bosom — at rest from storms. They seem to have been called home out of the sky to sleep now. ”
- John Muir- Copy
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“ Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. ”
- Miss Piggy- Copy
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“ Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — he hath awakened from the dream of life — 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
- 242
“ Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman — repose in energy. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.2K
“ For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things. ”
- John Sharp Williams- Copy
- 1.6K
“ How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there. ”
- William Collins- Copy
- 1.7K
“ We have heard much of the phrase, "peace and friendship." This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, "peace and friendship, in freedom." This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
- 2.6K
“ From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles. ”
- Charles Sumner- Copy
- 1.3K
“ We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. ”
- Indira Gandhi- Copy
- 3K
“ It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses. ”
- Edgar Guest- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Joy, temperance, and repose,Slam the door on the doctor's nose. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 783
“ The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth. ”
- Dorothy Sayers- Copy
- 2.8K
“ If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness. ”
- Julie Jeanne Eleonore de Lespinasse- Copy
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