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  • nothing like a few restful weeks contemplating the decline of civilization to restore the humors. What I did on my summer vacation was listen to a lot of people talk about the decline of practically everything - you could call it the leisure of the theory class.

    Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.200, Vintage
  • Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities.

    Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
  • Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

    Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.29, BookBaby
  • Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.

    John Ruskin “The Works of John Ruskin”
  • Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.

  • A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.

    Cat   Water   Body  
  • The more your mind is restful, the more you're capable of dynamic activity.

    Mind   Restful   Activity  
  • Go light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social life ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.

  • It is obvious that any rather non-color, monochromatic design is safe, easier, more generally restful and with life being the hurdy-gurdy that it is, more and more of us prefer and interior giving the maximum response.

    Color   Giving   Design  
  • God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.

  • Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.

    Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.

    Stars   Men   Names  
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4502, Delphi Classics
  • The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel to much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful 'adjustment' to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest.

  • When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.

    Kids   Night   Color  
    Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.1, Simon and Schuster
  • Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!

  • Human beings generally need between six and eight hours of restful sleep each night. Restful sleep means that you're not using pharmaceuticals or alcohol to get to sleep, but that you're drifting off easily once you turn off the light and are sleeping soundly through the night.

    Mean   Sleep   Night  
  • With all the infinite possibilities of spiritual life before you, do not settle down on a little patch of dusty ground at the mountain's foot in restful content. Be not content until you reach the mountain's summit.

  • a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

    Music   Sleep   Hours  
  • The most reliable joy is to be out of doors, to be a creature among other creatures. I find it very restful.

    Doors   Joy   Creatures  
    "Uncommon Knowledge - Dr. Ursula Goodenough". Interview by Jeannette Batz Cooperman, www.stlmag.com. July 2005.
  • A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth. Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.

    "Main Street". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1920.
  • If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.

    Lakes   Mind   Depth  
  • The restful alertness response reverses the aging process.

  • Meditation calms the mind, and when the mind is in a state of restful awareness, the body relaxes too.

    Meditation   Mind   Relax  
  • To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.

  • You can have calmness of mind at all times by the practice of yoga. You can have restful sleep. You can have increased energy, vigour, vitality, longevity, and a high standard of health. You can turn out efficient work within a short space of time. You can have success in every walk of life.

    Yoga   Sleep   Practice  
    Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”
  • Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In war, there is only one question with one right answer. . . . Going to war makes you a man. It is emotionally exciting and morally restful.

    Peace   War   Men  
  • Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious.

    Grief   Passion   Men  
    Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”
  • If y'can't see with yore own two eyes what's in front of them, then y'better off closin' 'em an' goin' t'sleep, 'tis far more restful! —Gerul

    Sleep   Eye   Two  
    Brian Jacques (2012). “The Pearls Of Lutra”, p.305, Random House
  • Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

    Running   Lying   Moving  
    1976 'Six Rules for a Happy Life', which he had inscribed on business cards, offered to fans seeking his autograph.
  • Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights

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