Quotes
Quotes about Rest
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. -James L. Fisher.
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
There are two levers for moving men: interest and fear.
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
Generally speaking, everyone is more interresting doing nothing than doing anything.
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.]
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.
Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need a rest. You know what to get worked up about and what to get rid of. And you know when it's time to take care of yourself, for yourself. To do something that makes you stronger, faster, more complete. Because you know it's never too late to have a life. And never too late to change one.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Basically I am interrested in friendship, sex, and death.
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. .
It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside. Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC) -I Ching (B.C.1150?).
The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind Sweeps the broad forest in its summer prime, As when some master-hand exulting sweeps The keys of some great organ, ye give forth The music of the woodland depths, a hymn Of gladness and of thanks.
Hail to thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion! Thou, linnet! in thy green array, Presiding spirit here to-day, Dost lead the revels of the May; And this is thy dominion.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. -Dr Joyce Brothers.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
