The 110 best rest phrases

After a day of work or a week full of activities, it is advisable to have a period of rest that helps recover strength, clear the mind and be full of energy to face again all the tasks that are done to daily. When we rest we enjoy well-being and together with a good diet and sports practice, they help us to have a much healthier life.

In this sense, here we will a tour of the most interesting phrases about rest; reflections of various authors on this important element in our lives.

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The most inspiring rest phrases

To understand the importance of taking breaks in everyday life, we bring you the best phrases about rest and how it helps us lift our spirits and recharge our batteries.

1. No one needs a vacation more than the person who just had it. (Elbert Hubbard)

Usually, after a vacation, we want to have them again.

2. Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before being tired. (Jules Renard)

Laziness is not synonymous with rest.

3. Slow work is the greatest rest for the body. (Gregory Maranon)

Working slowly is a way to keep both mind and body rested.

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4. No rest redeems me from work; the night pursues my rest to the day and the day to the night. (Horace)

Resting does not mean stopping work.

5. The secret to good health is for the body to be agitated and the mind to rest. (Anonymous)

Metal rest is also important.

6. For me sometimes a sky of silence is more expressive than the roar of the sea. (Munia Khan)

To rest you just need peace and quiet.

7. Sometimes you have to know how to rest. (Marina Castaneda)

Having a good rest is an art that few know.

8. Leisure always makes the spirit fickle. (Lucan)

It is good to rest, but it should not be turned into entertainment.

9. First your peace and to hell with the rest. (okemaku)

There is nothing more important than maintaining peace of mind.

10. It's Sunday so I'm 100% motivated to do nothing today!: (Anonymous)

Sundays are to be calm and relaxed.

11. The best pillow, the one with a healthy conscience. (Unknown)

A mental break is ideal to have a productive mind.

12. I really enjoyed this play. Especially at rest. (Groucho Marx)

There is always a time to rest.

13. There are three difficult things: keeping a secret, bearing a grievance, and making good use of leisure. (chilon)

Many people have trouble taking a break because they feel like they are wasting their time. A wrong notion.

14. What is more pleasant than rest mixed with literature? (Cicero)

There is nothing more pleasant than resting reading a good book.

15. Since I'm resting, I don't have time to work. (Miguel Unamuno)

Give the same value to your rest, that you give to work.

16. He who does not have two-thirds of the day for himself is a slave, whatever he may be, politician, merchant, official or scholar. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Look for a space every day to stop and rest, even for a moment.

17. Your commitment to your well-being is part of the revolution. (Danielle LaPorte)

If you do not take responsibility for your internal well-being, your health will take its toll sooner or later.

18. Sometimes you need to give yourself a break when you have had many changes in life. (Barbara Freethy)

Rest is not only for work, but also to take a break when life asks for it.

19. The greatest pleasure, without a mixture of annoyance, is rest. (Immanuel Kant)

In the break we also do something that we enjoy.

20. The art of rest is a part of the art of working. (John Steinberg)

If you know how to work, you will also know how to rest.

21. Renown and repose do not combine. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

If you want to stand out more than others, then rest is not part of your life.

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22. When rest is not found in oneself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

Rest depends on you, not on others.

23. Without work there is no rest, just as without struggle there is no victory. (Thomas à Kempis)

Rest is the best reward for hard work.

24. If you have the bow always tense, very soon you will break it. (Gaius Julius Phaedrus)

The body is very wise, it always knows when to rest, listen to it.

25. I am king of my will, business does not occupy me, and to be very rich in leisure is supreme happiness. (Felix Lope de Vega y Carpio)

A time of rest is worth more than a long period of work.

26. Resting too much is rust. (Walter Scott)

It is also a bad decision to have a very long leisure time.

27. Oh, memory, mortal enemy of my rest! (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

To have a good rest, you have to calm the mind.

28. The idle life is an anticipated death. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

It is necessary to differentiate between relaxing and succumbing to laziness.

29. When will you take a break? (Etienne Feider)

Having time to rest is a priority for every human being.

30. Than cruel! Great talents need a break from their creativity. (Anonymous)

No matter what you do, rest is a priority.

31. As much peace you carry, as rest you leave us. (Anonymous)

A good moment of relaxation helps us find our inner peace.

32. When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting caught up in it. (Eckhart Tolle)

One of the benefits of relaxing is that we are more aware of our thoughts.

33. I meditate so I know how to find a quiet place to be calm and peaceful. (Roseanne Barre)

Meditation also helps to have a good rest.

34. I do not know of a greater pleasure, in all my life, than being able to sleep. (Fernando Pesoa)

Life gives us many pleasures including sleeping, so don't miss out.

35. When a man is busy, he thinks of rest with delight; but he hardly rests, right away he feels the need to be busy. (R. Browning)

Everything has its time and you have to live it to the fullest.

36. Rest is good for the dead. Contemplation is not a luxury, it is a necessity. (Thomas Carlyle)

Find time for rest, your health will thank you.

37. The day for work, the night for rest. (Unknown)

Make sure that at the end of your day, you have a moment to disconnect.

38. In this life, you have to take a break from time to time. It's good for the thyroid. (Haruki Murakami)

Rest helps keep the body healthy.

39. The only place where the mind can find peace is in the silence of the heart. (ElizabethGilbert)

If your heart doesn't have rest, your mind won't either.

40. Solitude is the house of peace. (T. F. Hodge)

It's good to have a moment alone.

41. Rest belongs to work, like the eyelids to the eyes. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Everyone who works, has the right to rest from him.

42. Leisure time is the best of all acquisitions. (Socrates)

It is important to have moments of distraction to strengthen the spirit and the body.

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43. The peace begins with a smile. (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

If you want to have peace, in moments of rest.

44. Stay calm, serene, always in control of yourself. Find out how easy it is to get along below." (Paramahansa Yogananda)

By having a good rest, the mind is more active and allows you to have more control of yourself.

45. Happiness resides in the leisure of the spirit. (Aristotle)

When we are serene everything changes.

46. Leisure time is the time to do something useful. (Jonathan Swift)

During break time you can also do productive things.

47. I sleep, therefore I am. (Anonymous)

Emphasize the importance of rest.

48. I'll have plenty of time to rest when I die. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

For some people, resting is a waste of time.

49. Whoever lives modestly rests on his own work. (Ramon Lull)

Any time is good for rest.

50. The greatest pleasure, without a mixture of annoyance, is rest. (Immanuel Kant)

Having a break time does not mean giving up fun.

51. The wicked rest sometimes; the fool never (Jose Ortega y Gasset)

The worker takes a long time to escape for a while and rest.

52. Great rest is to be free from guilt. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Rest is not of the physical body, but also of the spirit.

53. Renown and repose do not combine. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

If you want to stand out, the break is not for you.

54. Be modest and meek, and you will have rest. (Anonymous)

Don't take on more than you can do.

55. Wisdom is knowing when to rest, when to be active, and how much of each to have. (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar)

Everything has its time, look for that harmony.

56. There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and don't overlook either. (Alan Cohen)

Find a balance between work and rest, both are important.

57. Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. (Bryant McGill)

If your mind is calm, you will be able to face all adversity.

58. We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves, otherwise we will harden. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Rest provides security, confidence and the energy to move forward.

59. If you get tired, learn to rest, not to give up. (Banksy)

Resting does not mean giving up.

60. It is precisely those who are busiest who most need to take a break. (Iyer Peak)

Those people who do not stop doing things are the ones who most need some time off.

61. Rest is good for the dead. (Thomas Carlyle)

There are people who don't want to rest, they don't know how important it is.

62. Rest the heart, telling the passion of it. (Unknown)

Venting our sorrows is also a way to rest from negative feelings.

63. I do not consider free those who do not sometimes have their leisure time. (Cicero)

Without any free time, the man falls ill.

64. Rest kills; only he who works lives. (Theodor Korner)

Resting does not mean that you no longer have to do anything, on the contrary, it is an impulse to move forward with greater spirit.

65. When there is time to get bored, I try to get bored, because boredom is a form of rest. (Juan Jose Arreola)

You don't have to be afraid of boredom, live it, enjoy it and take it as a break.

66. The goal for this weekend is to leave the house as little as possible. (Anonymous)

Staying at home after a busy week is a perfect plan.

67. No work is shameful, only leisure is shameful. (Hesiod)

Do nothing if it is bad, work dignifies man.

68. If you are idle, do not remain alone; if you are alone, do not keep yourselves idle. (Samuel Johnson)

Looking for company to spend leisure time is an excellent alternative.

69. My bed is the most possessive being: every morning it doesn't want me to leave. (Unknown)

There is nothing tastier than sleeping in a good bed.

70. The absence of occupation is not rest. An absolutely empty mind is an anguished mind. (WilliamCowper)

Work gives vigor, rest is a necessity.

71. To judge a man, do not ask what he is busy with, but what he is not busy with. (Anonymous)

Leisure is not a reason to judge someone, you only receive your reward for his work.

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72. Being able to intelligently occupy leisure is the ultimate product of civilization. (Bertrand Russell)

Leisure should also be something productive.

73. The absence of occupation is not rest. An absolutely empty mind is an anguished mind. (WilliamCowper)

You always have to be working as the mind needs to be busy.

74. There can be no pleasant rest without prior fatigue, just as there is no pleasure in eating without appetite. (Mariano Aguilo)

It's nice to enjoy a well-deserved rest after doing a lot of hard work.

75. The work in which we find pleasure cures the pain it causes. If the whole year was a party, sport would be as tedious as work. (William Shakespeare)

Not everything should be work and not all time should be a break.

76. Whoever rests in due time, yields twice as much and does not get tired. (Unknown)

A person who rests has more energy and their productivity is high.

77. Take your break. Your mind will regain its energy and a new and obvious idea will be before your eyes. Whoever rests in her work produces much more than the one who allows himself to be enslaved by her. (Efrain Gutierrez Zambrano)

To be productive you have to have a rested mind.

78. Peace, rest and sleep is all we know about death, and all we can ask of well-being. (Algernon Charles Swinburne)

When we talk about death we associate sleep and rest with it, when in fact it is what is needed to be more efficient.

79. A means is work, and an end rest. (Unknown)

Two elements that coexist as a perfect cycle.

80. Tiredness snores on pebbles; while laziness finds the feather pillow hard. (William Shakespeare)

A good rest relieves everything.

81. Rest! Don't we have after to rest the whole eternity? (Antoine Arnold)

Resting does not imply that things have come to an end.

82. Rest must be sacrificed to conscience and honor. (Ugo Foscolo)

Rest is a priority for everyone.

83. I began to experience that truth that says that in all evil there is always something good, and that, say what you will, a great pain is a great rest. (Alfred DeMusset)

Illnesses are also opportunities to rest.

84. Oh, what a sweet, soft and wholesome pillow, on which to lay a firm head, is ignorance and lack of curiosity! (Michel Eyquem DeMontaigne)

Never lose your ability to snoop as life requires that.

85. Return what is yours to its owner, and you will have a good night's sleep. (Anonymous)

Sleep is a good rest.

86. Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but churning like hell underneath. (Michael Cain)

Stay calm so you can control your emotions.

87. It's all quiet now. So quiet that you can almost hear other people's dreams. (Gayle Forman)

The tranquility is a joy for rest.

88. Lower your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in the middle of your heartbeat. (Chris Kyle)

Your health is at stake by not resting.

89. Where the water reaches its greatest depth, it remains calmest. (William Shakespeare)

Learn from the sea, to be calm when its depth is greater.

90. I practice staying calm all the time, starting from situations that are tense. (Martha Beck)

In difficult times you always have to stay calm.

91. Some nights I need to be held. Today I want to listen. It is very pleasant to lie on the tousled bed and listen. cover me with words (Don Delillo)

Rest also comes through the words of others.

92. If you are well rested, you can do two, three or five times more than if you are not adequately rested. (Brian Tracey)

When resting, the body and mind are at their highest capacity.

93. Leisure itself, however exalted it may be, never makes one happy. Only the free expansion of energies creates the feeling of happiness. (Hermann Von Keyserling)

Leisure does not bring happiness, work does.

94. Leisure is a perverse siren from which we must flee. (Horace)

Yes to rest, no to prolonged leisure.

95. Leisure, if not accompanied by study, is death and burial in the life of man. (Seneca)

In moments of rest, study and prepare.

96. Idleness is like rust: it spends faster than work. (Benjamin Franklin)

If you don't keep your mind busy, it atrophies.

97. I felt that this was my natural way of resting. (Mario Levrero)

Each person has their way of having a break time.

98. I am king of my will, business does not occupy me, and to be very rich in leisure is supreme happiness. (Felix Lope De Vega)

We should all find that time to rest.

99. Every kind of life, without alternative breaks, is not lasting. (Ovid)

If you don't rest, your health will play a trick on you.

100. I've taken the morning after pill and nothing, it's still Monday. What a scam. (Unknown)

It is a very humorous way of saying that the weekend is very short.

101. Some nights I need to be held. (Don Delillo)

Having company when resting is very nice.

102. I like chess because it's a good break; makes the mind work, but in a very special way. (Leo Tolstoy)

Playing a sport is a way to clear the mind.

103. I found brief rest and happiness in the emptiness of your lips. (Miguel Visurraga Sosa)

Feeling loved is a way of knowing that we can rest in someone's arms.

104. He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. (Dylan Thomas)

To enjoy a good rest you have to know how to work.

105. I'm just kind of taking a break and enjoying the freedom to make my own decisions. When you're on a TV show for six years, they run to their schedule. (Andrew Shue)

You have to take some time off so that you have the ability to make important decisions.

106. From my father, I learned the importance of sincerely working on things that I had committed to, and persevering relentlessly, even in the face of little progress. (KoichiTanaka)

They do not teach the importance of work and not the benefits of rest.

107. When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis on True Lies, he told me, you need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, it can go crazy. You need to have another approach. (Eliza Dusku)

Starting over when you've had a long rest is difficult at first.

108. Rest is not idleness, and sometimes lying on the grass under the trees on a summer day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float in the sky, it is by no means a waste of weather. (John Lubbok)

Resting is not a waste of time, it is a benefit for physical and emotional health.

109. I'm disappearing from Twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile? Local Detriment only seems to bring out the worst in some people. (Gary Linker)

Staying away from social networks for a while helps to have peace and tranquility of mind.

110. I am delighted to be returning to Formula 1 after a two-year break, and I am grateful to Lotus Renault GP for offering me this opportunity. (Kimi raikkonen)

After a moment of retreat to get back on track, opportunities can blossom.