The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off.
Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.
I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.
When you use sleep mask, no one's gonna recognize you. You're gonna look like an idiot, but it's so worth it.
Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.
I need my sleep.
Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand. This is the day of the milligram. The rigors of learning how to do long division have been a traditional part of childhood, just like learning to smoke. In fact, as far as I am concerned, the two go hand in hand. Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.
If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.
Whether I get four hours of sleep or eight, I always feel well-rested.
The restful alertness response reverses the aging process.
Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.
Fatigue is the best pillow.
The tragedy with velocity as the answer to complexity is that, after awhile, you cannot see or comprehend anything that is not traveling at the same speed you are. And you actually start to feel disturbed by people who have a sense of restfulness to their existence.
I think the most important healthy habit is to rest. Eight hours... every night.
I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.
Downtime for me is just when I can sit still.
It's very important to be rested.
What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
To be at ease is better than to be at business.
The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.
Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.
In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.
