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Rest Quotes

"If the world leaders can afford a 7 hours sleep, most of us probably can too."

"If the world leaders can afford a 7 hours sleep, most of us probably can too."

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

Rest, Sleep, Health, Leadership, Balance

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"All right,' Nico relented. 'Maybe a little '. He managed to take off his aviator jacket and wad it into a pillow before he keeled over and began to snore."

"All right,' Nico relented. 'Maybe a little '. He managed to take off his aviator jacket and wad it into a pillow before he keeled over and began to snore."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Rest, Humor, Truth, Life, Happiness

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"Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go."

"Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Rest, Sleep, Dream, Imagination, Peace

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"Rest, Recreated, Refreshed and Refuel!"

"Rest, Recreated, Refreshed and Refuel!"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Rest, Energy, Peace

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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."

"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."

Henry Miller, American Author

Rest, Silence, Laziness, Indifference, Medicine

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

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

Fennel Hudson, British Author

Rest, Holiday, Relaxation, Nature

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"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."

"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

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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."

"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

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

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

Henry Miller, American Author

Rest, Peace, Calm, Comfort

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"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."

"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

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

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Rest, Happiness, Truth, Today, Regret

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

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

Aspen Matis, American Author

Rest, Healing, Recovery, Balance

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"An irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself."

"An irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself."

Homer, Greek Poet

Rest, Sleep, Peace, Death, Calm

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"That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep."

"That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep."

John Green, American Author

Rest, Sleep, Dream, Memory, Longing

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"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."

"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

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