“Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my d…”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, amazon.com
“We rest. — A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise. — One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away: It is the same! — For, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free: Man's yesterday may ne'er be lik…”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, en.wikiquote.org
“Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.”— Sue Monk Kidd, amazon.com
“Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“What if you just accepted, for this moment, that you do not have to be perfect?”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.”— Claude Monet, amazon.com
“She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything.”— Michael Cunningham, amazon.com
“Stop over-loading yourself with numberless tasks. Give time to yourself for rest and positive deliberations. You can’t think better and plan better when you are under stress!”— Israelmore Ayivor, amazon.com
“Sometimes taking a break to recharge is, paradoxically, the most efficient move you can make.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“No I won't stop. For every minute of the rest of my life, I will fight.”— Dan Fogelman, Rapunzel, Mandy Moore, amazon.com
“Get more quality sleep. With big TV’s, computers, smartphones, tablets and all sorts of gadgets with glowing lights and beeping alerts, it can be hard to get enough sleep at night. You should be gunning for at least 8 hours of sleep a night.”— Ivan Dimitrijevic, lifehack.org