Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John LubbockTags: science inspirational beauty nature time water trees sky idleness summer clouds grass rest
Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
Augustine of HippoTags: peace christianity god religion heart jesus desire longing christ rest restlessness
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
Leo TolstoyTags: life books happiness music contentment nature work usefulness country conduct-of-life rest neighborliness
In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.
(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)
Tags: words reading books peace literature rest
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: power god death dreams torture rest
After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
Kenneth GrahameTags: work rest vacation holiday wind-in-the-willows
A change is as good as a rest.
Stephen KingOhne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: philosophy haste rest
Rest and be thankful.
William WordsworthTags: peace thankfulness rest
Stone and sea are deep in life
Two unalterable symbols of the world
Permanence at rest
And permanence in motion
Participants in the power that remains
Tags: permanence rest changing unchanging
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