Restful Quotes
47 quotes by 43 authors
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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,…
— Sivananda
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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…
— J.R. Miller
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Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel to much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful 'adjustment'…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales…
— Maxim Gorky
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I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and…
— May Sarton
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To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace, complete…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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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…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
— Sigmund Freud
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When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This…
— Stephen King
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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
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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,…
— Mary Doria Russell
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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
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle…
— Henri Nouwen
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Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort…
— Anne Tyler
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If y'can't see with yore own two eyes what's in front of them, then y'better off closin' 'em an' goin' t'sleep, 'tis far more restful!…
— Brian Jacques
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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…
— Lawrence Hill
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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
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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
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What do you like to do?†She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. “Needlework.†“Very restful, isn’t it?†“Well,†said Arya, “not the way I…
— George R. R. Martin
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