After a day of work or a week full of activities, it is advisable to have a rest period that helps you regain strength, clear your mind and be full of energy to face all the tasks you do daily again. When we rest we enjoy well-being and, together with a good diet and practicing sports, they help us have a much healthier life.
In this sense, here we will a tour of the most interesting phrases about rest ; reflections from several authors about this important element in our lives.
To understand the importance of taking breaks in our daily lives, we bring the best phrases about rest and how it helps us lift our spirits and recharge our batteries.
13. There are three difficult things: keeping a secret, enduring a grievance, and using leisure well. (Quilon)
Many people have trouble taking a break, as they feel like they are wasting their time. A wrong notion.
14. What is more pleasant than rest mixed with literature? (Cicero)
There is nothing more pleasant than relaxing reading a good book.
15. Since I am resting, I don’t have time to work. (Miguel de Unamuno)
Give the same value to your rest as you give to work.
16. He who does not have two-thirds of the day for himself is a slave, whatever he may be, politician, merchant, official or scholar. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Find a space every day to stop and rest, even if it’s just for a moment.
17. Your commitment to your well-being is part of the revolution. (Danielle LaPorte)
If you don’t take responsibility for your internal well-being, your health will take its toll sooner or later.
18. Sometimes you need to give yourself a break when you’ve had a lot of changes in life. (Barbara Freethy)
Rest is not only for work, but it is also giving yourself a break when life asks you to.
19. The greatest pleasure, without a mixture of annoyance, is rest. (Immanuel Kant)
During the break we also do something we enjoy.
20. The art of rest is a part of the art of working. (John Steinbeck)
If you know how to work, you will also know how to rest.
21. Renown and rest do not combine. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
If you want to stand out more than others, then rest is not part of your life.
You don’t have to be afraid of boredom, live it, enjoy it and take it as a break.
66. The goal for this weekend is to leave the house as little as possible. (Anonymous)
Staying home after a busy week is a perfect plan.
67. No work is shameful, only leisure is shameful. (Hesiod)
Do nothing if it is bad, work dignifies man.
68. If you are idle, do not remain alone; If you are alone, do not remain idle. (Samuel Johnson)
Looking for company to spend leisure moments is an excellent alternative.
69. My bed is the most possessive being: every morning it doesn’t want me to leave. (A stranger)
There is nothing tastier than sleeping in a good bed.
70. The absence of occupation is not rest. An absolutely empty mind is a distressed mind. (William Cowper)
Work gives vigor, rest is a necessity.
71. To judge a man, do not ask what he is busy with, but rather what he is not busy with. (Anonymous)
Leisure is not a reason to judge someone, you just receive your reward for your work.
72. Being able to occupy one’s leisure intelligently is the ultimate product of civilization. (Bertrand Russell)
Leisure should also be something productive.
73. The absence of occupation is not rest. An absolutely empty mind is a distressed mind. (William Cowper)
You always have to be at work since your mind needs to be busy.
74. There can be no pleasant rest without prior fatigue, in the same way that there is no pleasure in food when there is no appetite. (Mariano Aguiló)
It’s nice to enjoy a well-deserved rest after hard work.
75. The work in which we find pleasure cures the pain it causes. If the whole year were a party, sport would be as tedious as work. (William Shakespeare)
Not everything should be work nor should all time be rest.
76.Whoever rests in due time produces twice as much and does not get tired. (A stranger)
A person who rests has greater energy and their productivity is high.
78. Peace, rest and sleep are all we know about death, and everything we can ask of well-being. (Algernon Charles Swinburne)
When we talk about death we associate sleep and rest with it, when in reality it is what is needed to be more efficient.
79. A means is work, and an end is rest. (A stranger)
Two elements that coexist as a perfect cycle.
80. Fatigue snores on the pebbles; while laziness finds the feather pillow hard. (William Shakespeare)
A good rest relieves everything.
81. Rest! Don’t we have the entire eternity to rest afterwards? (Antoine Arnauld)
Resting does not mean that things have come to an end.
82. Rest must be sacrificed to conscience and honor. (Ugo Foscolo)
Rest is a priority for everyone.
83. I began to experience that truth that says that in every evil there is always something good, and that, say what you want, a great pain is a great rest. (Alfred De Musset)
Illnesses are also opportunities to rest.
84. Oh, how sweet, soft and healthy pillow, where to rest a firm head, is ignorance and lack of curiosity! (Michel Eyquem De Montaigne)
Never lose your ability to browse because life requires that.
85. Let what is yours return to its owner, and you will have a good sleep. (Anonymous)
Sleep is a good rest.
86. Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but beating like hell underneath. (Michael Caine)
Stay calm to be able to control your emotions.
87. It’s all quiet now. So quiet you can almost hear other people’s dreams. (Gayle Forman)
Tranquility is a joy for rest.
88. Reduce your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in the middle of your heartbeat. (Chris Kyle)
Your health is at stake by not resting.
89. Where the water reaches its greatest depth, it remains calmest. (William Shakespeare)
Learn from the sea, to be calm when its depth is greatest.
90. I practice staying calm all the time, even in situations that are tense. (Martha Beck)
In difficult times you always have to stay calm.
91. Some nights I need to be held. Today I want to listen. It is very pleasant to rest in the messy bed and listen. Cover me with words. (Don DeLillo)
Rest also comes through the words of others.
92. If you are well rested, you can do two, three or five times more than if you are not properly rested. (Brian Tracy)
When you rest, the body and mind are at their highest capacity.
93. Leisure itself, no matter how much it is exalted, never makes one happy. Only the free expansion of energies creates the feeling of happiness. (Hermann Von Keyserling)
Leisure does not bring happiness, work does.
94. Leisure is a perverse siren from which we must flee. (Horace)
Yes to rest, no to prolonged leisure.
95. Leisure, if it is not accompanied by study, is death and burial in the life of man. (Seneca)
In moments of rest, study and prepare.
96. Idleness is like rust: it spends faster than work. (Benjamin Franklin)
If you don’t keep your mind busy, it atrophies.
97. I felt like this was my natural way to rest. (Mario Levrero)
Each person has their own way of having time to rest.
98. I am king of my will, I am not occupied with business, and being very rich in leisure is the utmost happiness. (Felix Lope De Vega)
We must all find that time to rest.
99. Any kind of life, without alternative breaks, is not lasting. (Ovid)
If you don’t rest, your health will play tricks on you.
100. I have taken the morning after pill and nothing, it’s still Monday. What a scam. (A stranger)
It’s a very joking way of saying that the weekend is very short.
101. Some nights I need to be held. (Don DeLillo)
Having company when you rest is very pleasant.
102. I like chess because it is a good rest; It makes the mind work, but in a very special way. (Leo Tolstoy)
Playing a sport is a way to clear your mind.
103. I found brief rest and happiness in the emptiness of your lips. (Miguel Visurraga Sosa)
Feeling loved is a way of knowing that we can rest in someone’s arms.
104. He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. (Dylan Thomas)
To enjoy a good rest you have to know how to work.
105. I’m just a little into taking a break and enjoying the freedom of making my own decisions. When you’re on a TV show for six years, they run on their schedule. (Andrew Shue)
You have to take some time off to be able to make important decisions.
106. From my father, I learned the importance of sincerely working on the things to which I had committed myself, and relentlessly persevering, even in the face of little progress. (Koichi Tanaka)
They do not teach the importance of work and not the benefits of rest.
107. When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis on True Lies, she told me, you need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, it can go crazy. You need to have another approach. (Eliza Dushku)
Starting over when you have had a long rest is difficult at first.
108. Rest is not idleness, and sometimes lying on the grass under the trees on a summer day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float in the sky, is by no means a waste of time. (John Lubbock)
Resting is not a waste of time, it is a benefit for physical and emotional health.
109. I’m disappearing from Twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile? Local Prejudice only seems to bring out the worst in some people. (Gary Lineker)
Getting away from social media for a while helps you have peace and quiet of mind.
110. I am delighted to be returning to Formula 1 after a two-year break, and I am grateful to Lotus Renault GP for offering me this opportunity. (Kimi raikkonen)
After a moment of retreat to get back on track, opportunities can flourish.
