"We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable."

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"Weekends are life's gift to those who hate their jobs."

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"To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself."

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"Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament."

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"You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday."

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Rest, Holiday, Relaxation, Nature

"Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he held onto nothing, and he held onto dreams."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Rest, Sleep, Dream, Nothing

"Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Rest, Sleep, Peace, Escape, Calm

"Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Rest, Life, Struggle, Emotion

"Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day."

John Piper, American Clergyman

Rest, Sleep, God, Control

"A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae."

Henry Miller, American Author

Rest, Peace, Calm, Comfort

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"Weekends are life's gift to those who hate their jobs."

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"To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself."

"Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament."

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"Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it."

"Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day."

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