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Rest Quotes by Wendell Berry
- There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the…
- For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
- Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our…
- When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and…
- Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind…
- It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn…
- People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure.…
- And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just…
- I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the…
More Rest Quotes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I've committed to surfing the rest of my life. — Lance Armstrong
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen
- Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the… — Edward Bach
- The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not… — Gaston Bachelard
- Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be… — Francis Bacon
- Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted… — Erykah Badu
- The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which… — Walter Bagehot
- Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. — Pearl Bailey
- Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of… — Russell Baker