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• Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Stars, Men, Names

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4502, Delphi Classics

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• As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Christian, Sweet, Song

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• Human beings generally need between six and eight hours of restful sleep each night. Restful sleep means that you're not using pharmaceuticals or alcohol to get to sleep, but that you're drifting off easily once you turn off the light and are sleeping soundly through the night.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Sleep, Night

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• A lack of restful sleep disrupts the body's innate balance, weakens our immune system, and speeds up the aging process.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sleep, Balance, Body

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• Getting regular restful sleep is an essential key to staying healthy and vital, yet it is so often neglected or underemphasized.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sleep, Keys, Healthy

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• Meditation calms the mind, and when the mind is in a state of restful awareness, the body relaxes too.

  Deepak Chopra

  Meditation, Mind, Relax

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• Our prayer life will become restful when it really dawns upon us that we have done all we are supposed to do when we have spoken to Him about it. From the moment we have left it with Him, it is His responsi-bility.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Dawn, Done

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.

  Jean Anouilh

  Tragedy, Flawless, Clean

  'Antigone' (1944)

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• nothing like a few restful weeks contemplating the decline of civilization to restore the humors. What I did on my summer vacation was listen to a lot of people talk about the decline of practically everything - you could call it the leisure of the theory class.

  Molly Ivins

  Summer, Vacation, Civilization

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.200, Vintage

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• nothing is more restful than conformity.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Conformity

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• It is not restful, it is not possible to talk wholeheartedly to more than one person at a time. You can't really talk with a person unless you surrender to them, for the moment (all other talk is futile). You can't surrender to more than one person a moment.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Communication, Moments, Surrender

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1972). “Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.

  May Sarton

  Men, Thinking, Touching

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• With all the infinite possibilities of spiritual life before you, do not settle down on a little patch of dusty ground at the mountain's foot in restful content. Be not content until you reach the mountain's summit.

  J.R. Miller

  Spiritual, Determination, Feet

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• You can have calmness of mind at all times by the practice of yoga. You can have restful sleep. You can have increased energy, vigour, vitality, longevity, and a high standard of health. You can turn out efficient work within a short space of time. You can have success in every walk of life.

  Sivananda

  Yoga, Sleep, Practice

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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• It is restful to leave one's home; not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilities.

  Andre Maurois

  Home, Responsibility, Doe

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• You are being trained to be a Queen, but you do not have to act like one until y ou get your own hive. Being a Queen will not overtax you as you will never be called upon to use your mind on any major matter. You will use the National Mind, their mind. It's very restful.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Queens, Mind, Use

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• In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

  Nhat Hanh

  Reality, Meditation, Encounters

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.60, Beacon Press

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• She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.

  Hilary Mantel

  Stupid, Thinking, Doe

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• I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future.

  Anton Walbrook

  Past, Adore, Dependable

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• And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep, that sleep that is not particularly restful but difficult to wake up from all the same.

  John Green

  Sleep, Wake Up, Mouths

  John Green (2005). “Looking for Alaska: A Novel”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• The restful alertness response reverses the aging process.

  Deepak Chopra

  Alertness, Aging, Process

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• Prayer can assume very different forms, from quiet, blessed contemplation of God, in which eye meets eye in restful meditation, to deep sighs or sudden exclamations of wonder, joy, gratitude or adoration.

  Ole Hallesby

  Gratitude, Prayer, Blessed

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.

  Stella Gibbons

  Strong, Strong Minded, Cold Comfort Farm

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In war, there is only one question with one right answer. . . . Going to war makes you a man. It is emotionally exciting and morally restful.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Peace, War, Men

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• But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.

  Lawrence Hill

  Writing, Heart, Sleep

  Lawrence Hill (2009). “The Book of Negroes”, p.117, Random House

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