“If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.”— Dale Carnegie, amazon.com
“I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.”— banksy, goodreads.com
“But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“I loved to sleep with the window open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open the window and put my head on the pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I sleep easily .. because sleep is based on "peace" not work load ... I feel amazing, sleep like a baby”— Gary Vaynerchuk, twitter.com
“And what I find interesting is that if you had asked me that morning, ‘How are you, Arianna?,’ I would have said, ‘Fine,’ because it was normal running on empty. Think about how aware we are of how much battery remains on our smartphone, but we don’t have that same awareness about ourselves.”— Ariana Huffington, thecut.com
“Sleep is confusing. Dreams are baffling. The concept of transitioning from one perceived reality to another is a tolerated madness.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.com
“Practice sleep hygiene including avoiding electronic devices before bed and reserving the bedroom only for sleep and sex.”— Mark Hyman, drhyman.com
“Go to bed earlier, setting a bedtime for yourself that allows for enough total hours of sleep needed to be on your A-game — and perhaps even a session between the sheets.”— Tara Campbell, todaysparent.com
“Make like a baby and experience the world as a series of great terrors interspersed with brilliant comedies and lots of food and sleep.”— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com
“On the days it’s hard to get out of bed, I remember the only way it gets better is if I actually get out. There will never be sunshine if I keep the blinds permanently shut.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes I consider pretending morning never arrived. I can slip back to sleep and blame it on an eternal nighttime. If I shut the blinds, who could even tell the difference?”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com