Quotes for the Journey: Rest A good rest is half the work. Proverb

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.  Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.       -Leonardo Da Vinci     Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.        -John Lubbock     What do I want to take home from my summer vacation?  Time.  The wonderful luxury of being at rest.  The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander.  The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are.  Summer is my period of grace.       -Ellen Goodman     Rest is a fine medicine.  Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!       -Thomas Carlyle     Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.       -Indra Devi      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

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best.  My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.       -Ernest Hemingway

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.       -Ralph Marston

My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship.  Her ability to rest eventually taught me incredibly valuable lessons about the art of taking time-outs.  To this day, Bonnie is astutely aware of times when her energy dips too low and resolutely honors her need to rest.  To boost her energy, she's been known to sit quietly with a cup of tea, adjourn a workshop we were co-facilitating to take a five-minute breather, or slip out of her own wedding reception to be restored by a few minutes of solitude in the sun.       -Sue Patton Thoele

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.       -Spanish Proverb

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.       -Ovid

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.       -Ashleigh Brilliant

They that can take rest are greater than they that can take cities.       -Benjamin Franklin

No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.      -Jean Paul

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