Restful Quotes

• To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace, complete fulfillment.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Peace, Sea, Sky

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

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• Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

  Etty Hillesum

  Appreciation, Prayer, Stress

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.305, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Easy, Diligence

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Great Speeches”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational Life, Flower, Looks

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• What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

  Hal Boyle

  Memorable, Rivers, People

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• Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Dedication, Teamwork and Camaraderie: Tim Duncan" by Angela Guzman, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Pain, Memories

  John Ruskin “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen. Then what will be the quality? Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks. And the walking is sauntering. Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated - not sitting for anything in particular, just enjoying how beautiful just sitting doing nothing is, how relaxing, how restful.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Loving Life, Hair

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• The more your mind is restful, the more you're capable of dynamic activity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mind, Activity, Capable

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• The most reliable joy is to be out of doors, to be a creature among other creatures. I find it very restful.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Doors, Joy, Creatures

  "Uncommon Knowledge - Dr. Ursula Goodenough". Interview by Jeannette Batz Cooperman, www.stlmag.com. July 2005.

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• God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Peace With God, Saving, Scripture

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• Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference...instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.

  Hudson Taylor

  Differences, Victory, Liberty

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• When we don't nourish ourselves with fresh, healthy food, restful sleep, regular exercise, a daily spiritual practice such as meditation or journaling, and other mind-body healing habits, we will inevitably feel tired, out of balance, irritable, and sometimes even depressed.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Healing, Tired

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• When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Night, Color

  Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Cat, Water, Body

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• Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Real, Unique, Opportunity

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• When I am doing things around the house - when I'm decorating, setting up furniture, putting out a vase of flowers, lighting my candles, my mind is always thinking, "What do I need to do to make this space peaceful and restful and comfortable so that when people walk into it, aesthetically they're heightened and enlightened?"

  Evangeline Lilly

  Flower, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Music, Sleep, Hours

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• Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• Go light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social life ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.

  Satchel Paige

  Running, Communication, Light

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• If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Lakes, Mind, Depth

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• Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Grief, Passion, Men

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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• Aquamarine is an airy blue with a dreamy feel. Cool and calming, ethereal Aquamarine is a shade with a wet and watery feel. Open and expansive, this restful blue also acts as a stress reducer.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Stress, Blue, Shade

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• Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Tired, Desert

  Sonnet 66

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