Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening
to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

John Lubbock

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.

Spanish Proverb

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best.
My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

Ernest Hemingway

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your
work your judgment will be surer.  Go some distance away because then
the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack
of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Rest is a fine medicine.  Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics;
let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business;
let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!

Thomas Carlyle

Ralph Marston

Indra Devi

What do I want to take home from my summer vacation?  Time.
The wonderful luxury of being at rest.  The days
when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life
on track and let life simply wander.  The days when you
stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are.
Summer is my period of grace.

Ellen Goodman

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Jean Paul

My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned
my ire early in our relationship.  Her ability to rest eventually taught me
incredibly valuable lessons about the art of taking time-outs.  To this day,
Bonnie is astutely aware of times when her energy dips too low and
resolutely honors her need to rest.  To boost her energy, she's been known
to sit quietly with a cup of tea, adjourn a workshop we were co-facilitating
to take a five-minute breather, or slip out of her own wedding reception
to be restored by a few minutes of solitude in the sun.

Sue Patton Thoele