Quotes about rest
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“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”

Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church

Motivational, Deep, Success, Inspirational

“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.”

Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States

Friendship, World, Study, Help

“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”

William Penn (1644–1718) English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania

Sleep, Silence

“Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged.”

Ben Fountain (1958) American writer

Wisdom, Happiness, Democracy, Time

“Since human beings are storytelling beings, we are bound to rebel against the drift to storylessness. But there is no guarantee that the rebellions will take salutary form. Some, in their hunger for story, will be drawn to the vacant, vicarious fare of confessional talk shows, celebrity scandals, and sensational trials. Others will seek refuge in fundamentalism. The hope of our time rests instead with those who can summon the conviction and restraint to make sense of our condition and repair the civic life on which democracy depends.”

Michael J. Sandel (1953) American political philosopher

Conclusion: In Search of a Public Philosophy
Democracy's Discontent (1996)

Life, Hunger, Hope, Democracy

“Free Trade in the sense in which we have always understood it is either a sound economic policy or it is not. Judging by results in national prosperity I should have thought it would take a lot of disproving, but the Tories are ready to play fast and lose with it and some of our own people who ought to know far better seem ready to back them up. If there is any future for the Liberal party it surely rests on the rock of Free Trade.”

C. P. Scott (1846–1932) British journalist, publisher and politician

Letter to John Lawrence Hammond (22 December 1931), quoted in The Political Diaries of C. P. Scott, 1911–1928, ed. Trevor Wilson (1970), p. 495

People, Sense, Future

“We did not expect to have a backup system for the rest of the universe. We can rely upon it to be cold most of the time.”

Neal Stephenson book Seveneves

“YMIR” (p. 354)
Seveneves (2015), Part Two

Universe, Time

“Diplomacy which does not rest on force is the most feeble and futile of weapons, and except for bare self-defence, we have not the force.”

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician

Letter to Lord Lytton (8 March 1877), quoted in David Steele, Lord Salisbury: A Political Biography (2001), p. 108
1870s

“God-sent are all religions blest;
And Christ, the Way, the Truth, the Life,
To give the heavy laden rest
And peace from sorrow, sin, and strife.”

Max Heindel (1865–1919) American asrologer and occultist

Creed or Christ (1909)

Life, God, Truth, Peace

“And my God, Ramón was just a little five-year-old kid like the rest of us.”

Victor Villaseñor (1940) American writer

Burro Genius: A Memoir (2004)

God

“Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by

Love, Life, Silence

“Don't try to change the world, find something that you love
And do it every day
Do that for the rest of your life
And eventually, the world will change”

Macklemore (1983) American rapper from Washington

Source: Song Growing Up

Love, Life, World, Change

“Surrounded only by people who pay attention to you, the rest deserves no consideration.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Circondati solo di persone che ti prestano attenzione, il resto non merita considerazione.
Source: prevale.net

People

“When someone is moved by apostolic zeal, he always moves forward, with a very open spirit, with the desire of always doing good. The Lord then does the rest.”

Ruggero Franceschini (1939) Italian Roman Catholic archbishop

Bishop Padovese laid to rest in Italy https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/19989/bishop-padovese-laid-to-rest-in-italy (June 15, 2010)

“America has created the evil that is attacking it. The evil will not disappear even if I die and Osama dies and others die. This is U.S. policy. The U.S. should step back and review its policy. It should stop trying to impose its empire on the rest of the world, especially on Islamic countries.”

Mohammed Omar (1959–2013) Founder and former leader of the Taliban

Interview by Spozhmai Maiwandi

World, Evil, Country

“Once upon a time I never believed I could get tired of baseball. I played baseball from morning to night. But today it isn't as it once was. I just never seem to get enough rest. And if I can't play at my best all the time, why play?”

Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player

As quoted in "Clemente: Happy 33, With 3 Years to Go" https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83638719/the-pittsburgh-press/ by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (August 17, 1967), p. 39 <br class="br">Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>

Time, Night

“Magazine journalism is worth remembering. They're mostly gone now, but for a long time magazines played a significant role in the life of the country. If you wanted to understand what the rest of the world was like, you read magazines.”

Tucker Carlson (1969) American political commentator

Tucker Carlson The Long Side, From the Introduction https://www.tuckercarlson.com/ <br class="br">2020s, 2021

Life, World, Understanding, Time

“Respect the hustler for they’re doing great jobs and they never rest more.”

Ayuel Monykuch (1997) South Sudanese Entrepreneur

“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”

Aristotle Onassis (1906–1975) Greek shipping magnate

Hope, Learning, Sea, Hope

“Wherever will the promised light be? Is there a paradise among the clouds maybe, rest in the wind, refreshment on the seabed? Where does the dark, the insomnia, the madness, the crying, the illness, the death finish? Where does God hide himself?”

Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet

Dove sarà mai la luce promessa? C’è forse un paradiso tra le nuvole, riposo nel vento, ristoro nei fondali marini? Dove finisce il buio, l’insonnia, la pazzia, il pianto, la malattia, la morte? Dove si nasconde Dio?
FROM: Andrew Mangham, The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011, pp. 71-72. ISBN 978-1443828444

Death, God, Light, Cry

“Self-realisation is the highest knowledge you can ever seek into your life—The rest are simply facts.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Life, Knowledge

“You will never find rest, but pure affection once you fall in love with a woman who truly loves you back.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Love

“Really life is a short trip. We are all passengers, there is no rest even after death.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Life, Death

“The last child must inherit all the great attributes of his elders, then add in some of his own characteristics to be completely unique from the rest.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Every state must be aware that its peace, its security rests on its own sword.”

Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) German statesman, Chancellor of Germany

All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 5. A prospectus by the military Chazal and Brialmont, The military centipede Henri-Alexis Brialmont (1821-1893) http://www.ethesis.net/leopold_II/leopold_II.htm#2.%20 CROKAERT, P. Brialmont, 183. <br class="br">Undated

Peace

“ALL religions have preserved the remembrance of a primitive book, written in hieroglyphs by the sages of the earliest epoch of the world. [...] The tradition in question rests altogether on the one dogma of Magic: the visible is for us the proportional measure of the invisible.”

Eliphas Levi (1810–1875) French writer

Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Source: Friedrich Nietzsche, H.L. Mencken (Translator), The Anti-Christ, Chicago, Sharp Press, 1999, p. 144.</

Books, World, Religion, Question

“[Foxes have] their dens and birds have their nests, but human beings have no place to lay down and rest.”

Jesus (-7–30 BC) Jewish preacher and religious leader, central figure of Christianity

86
Gnostic Gospels, Gospel of Thomas (c. 2nd century AD manuscript)

Bird

“Love without communication is like loving our fantasies, which stay with us in our thoughts but we can never face it for the rest of our life.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

Love, Life, Communication

“A warrior never worries about his fear. Instead, he thinks about the wonders of "seeing" the flow of energy! The rest is frills, unimportant frills.”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

Fear, Thinking

“Power rests on the kind of knowledge that one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless? They will not prepare us for our unavoidable encounter with the unknown.”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)

Knowledge, Sense

“You don’t belong with them; you’re not special, you have no place in any unseen world; you’re like me and the rest of our family. Get used to it! It’s hell being ordinary, but that’s the human condition.”

Pat Cadigan (1953) science fiction author

Source: Short fiction, Picking Up the Pieces (2011), p. 191
Context: I pushed her back hard. “You don’t belong with them; you’re not special, you have no place in any unseen world; you’re like me and the rest of our family. Get used to it!” She looked at me like I’d slapped her.
“Oh, sorry,” I said, feeling equally stung by her reaction. “It’s hell being ordinary, but that’s the human condition.”

World, Family, Hell

“[P]rivate spirits are too giddy to rest upon Scripture, and too heady and shallow to be acquainted with demonstrative arguments.”

William Laud (1573–1645) Archbishop of Canterbury

Source: A Relation of the Conference betweene William Lawd...and Mr. Fisher the Jesuite (1639), quoted in The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, sometime Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Volume II: Conference with Fisher (1849), p. 272

“Whatever possibilities and potentialities are latent today, the fact remains that the last word and the final decision will rest with us — the people.”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter I, Secrets Behind History

People, Decision

“China’s development can’t shut out the rest of the world. The world’s development can’t shut out China.”

Wang Qishan (1948) Chinese politician

Source: "World cannot shut China out, vice president says, in jab at U.S." in Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-diplomacy/world-cannot-shut-china-out-vice-president-says-in-jab-at-u-s-idUSKCN1U303U (7 July 2019)

World

“Whatever you identify with is what you are. If you identify with the physical body, then to all intents and purposes you are the physical body. That traps the Self in the physical plane and causes all the illness — stomach aches, ulcers, and all the rest, of the physical body.”

Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist

Source: Maitreya's Mission Vol. III (1997) p. 606

“Reader, if you don’t know what a database is, rest assured that an explanation of the concept would in no way increase your enjoyment in reading this account. If you do know, you will thank me for sparing you the details.”

Neal Stephenson (1959) American science fiction writer

Diachronicle: Days 57–221 (winter, year 0)
Source: The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (2017)

Way, Reading

“Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book III, 10

Life, Past

“You always wanted to make it clear you weren't like the rest of us. You're still doing it.”

Zadie Smith (1975) British writer

Source: Penguin Books 2013, p. 278.

“You can't do everything at the same time, don't be too much in a hurry. Space out yourself, rest, understand yourself and love yourself.”

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde (1978) Nigerian actress and singer

Love, Understanding, Time

“Why would someone use magic to kill a jazz musician in the middle of his set? I mean, I have my problems with the New Thing and the rest of the atonal modernists but I wouldn’t kill someone for playing it–at least not if I wasn’t trapped in the same room.”

Ben Aaronovitch book Moon Over Soho

Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 1, “Body and Soul” (p. 19)

Problem

“Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored. Dying . . . or busy with other assignments.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Hays translation
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VI, 2

Business

“I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response. For an actor that is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. I can part the Red Sea, but I can't part with you, which is why I won't exclude you from this stage in my life.
For now, I'm not changing anything. I will insist on work when I can; the doctors will insist on rest when I must. If you see a little less spring in my step, if your name fails to leap to my lips, you will know why. And if I tell you a funny story for the second time, please laugh anyway.”

Charlton Heston (1923–2008) American actor

Winning the Cultural War (1999), Video farewell (2002)

Life, Spring, Change, Loss

“People need to feel they belong to their country. Their need for community is most pronounced in a time of adversity. The people who are hit hardest by a depression, who feel that their children will suffer, look for loyalty from the rest of the community and the government. The present immigration programme, in its indifference to the feelings of the old Australians, erodes those loyalties. The multicultural policy, and its emphasis on what is different and on the rights of the new minority rather than the old majority, gnaws at that sense of solidarity that many people crave for.”

Geoffrey Blainey book All for Australia

All for Australia (1984)

Children, People, Feeling, Communication

“Allow our common home to rest from our throw-away culture, our addiction to consumption, to unlimited economic growth, and to the dirty and deadly fossil fuels. Let us open ourselves to the new normal of interconnectedness and interrelatedness. We are in this together.”

Jose Romeo Lazo (1949) Filipino Roman Catholic archbishop

Source: Philippine Church flags off Season of Creation https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2020-09/philippines-church-society-celebrate-season-creation.html (3 September 2020)

Home

“Men talk too much of gold and fame,
And not enough about a name;
And yet a good name's better far
Than all earth's glistening jewels are.
Who holds his name above all price
And chooses every sacrifice
To keep his earthly record clear,
Can face the world without a fear.Who never cheats nor lies for gain,
A poor man may, perhaps, remain,
Yet, when at night he goes to rest,
No little voice within his breast
Disturbs his slumber. Conscience clear,
He falls asleep with naught to fear
And when he wakes the world to face
He is not tainted by disgrace.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: The Path to Home (1919), p.143 - A Good Name, stanzas 1 and 2.

Men, World, Fear, Cheating

“Oh, my shoulders grow aweary of the burdens I am bearin',
An' I grumble when I'm footsore at the rough road I am farin',
But I strap my knapsack tighter till I feel the leather bind me,
An' I'm glad to bear the burdens for the ones who come behind me.
It's for them that I am ploddin', for the children comin' after;
I would strew their path with roses and would fill their days with laughter.Oh, there's selfishness within me, there are times it gets to talkin',
Times I hear it whisper to me, "It's a dusty road you're walkin';
Why not rest your feet a little; why not pause an' take your leisure?
Don't you hunger in your strivin' for the merry whirl of pleasure?"
Then I turn an' see them smilin' an' I grip my burdens tighter,
For the joy that I am seekin' is to see their eyes grow brighter.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: The Path to Home (1919), p.112 - The Burden Bearer, stanzas 1 and 2.

Hunger, Children, Pleasure, Feeling

“I've come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us... I began to wonder, reluctantly, whether it was possible that being in school itself was what was dumbing them down. Was it possible I had been hired not to enlarge children's power, but to diminish it? That seemed crazy on the face of it, but slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.”

John Taylor Gatto book Dumbing Us Down

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), pp. xxxiii-xxxiv

Children, Age, School, Behavior

“Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.”

John Taylor Gatto book Dumbing Us Down

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), p. xxxiv

Children, Age, School, Behavior

“We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.”

Louise Glück book Meadowlands

Source: Meadowlands (1996), "Nostos"

World, Memory, Childhood

“Rest now—and weep—thou praised of Earth!
And own, when all is done,
A world's false worship is not worth
The deep tried love of one.”

Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) British songwriter, composer, poet and author

"Fame", line 25; p. 141.
Songs, Poems, & Verses (1894)

Love, World, Falseness

“Thou mourner for departed dreams!
On earth there is no rest
When grief hath troubled the pure streams
Of memory in thy breast!”

Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) British songwriter, composer, poet and author

"Disenchanted!", line 41; p. 139.
Songs, Poems, & Verses (1894)

Dreams, Memory

“Unless we bring falsehood to rest, we will never rest.”

- Goa

“Right fights while wrong rests.”

- Goa

Fight

“He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest.”

W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet

Source: Stop All The Clocks

“Why stay in Chicago; what did the town have to justify its existence? One decent boulevard, one decent suburb to the north, priced for the rich, two universities and a lake. As for the rest, endless miles of depressing, dirty streets. The town was one big stockyard.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (p. 261)
Short fiction, The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (1999)

Universe

“The rest of the world looks at you and sees who you are. They see you are a multi-ethnic group of Americans that are, in fact, together and united into one so — resolve: to defend your country and to help those who need help. That’s why you’re here.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2022, March 2022, Remarks to members of the 82nd Airborne Division in Poland

World, Help, Country

“So often, our Armed Forces and the Department of Defense staff are how the rest of the world encounters America. And you all know as well as anyone that our country is safer and stronger when we lead not just with the example of our power, but with the power of our example.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2021, February 2021, Remarks by President Biden to Department of Defense Personnel, February 10, 2021

World, Country

“To the gentlemen we lost on the mission and to those who have passed away since, thank you very much and may they rest in peace.”

Richard E. Cole (1915–2019) career officer in the United States Air Force and participant in the Doolittle Raid (1915-2019)

"Richard Cole, 103, Last Survivor of Doolittle Raid on Japan, Dies" in The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/obituaries/richard-cole-dead.html (9 April 2019)

Peace

“I am set to give my best. Yes, to win a medal for India in the Olympics is my dream. But I will go step by step; I will give my hundred percent and leave the rest to God.”

Sania Nehwal (1990) Indian badminton player

"Saina Nehwal Interview: Sportskeeda Exclusive" https://www.sportskeeda.com/badminton/saina-nehwal-interview-sportskeeda-exclusive (19 April 2012)

God, Dreams

“See, everybody looks at the world from his own point of view. I call it the ground state of the resting mind. And your brain does the same thing, left alone it returns to and thinks about what it’s really interested in.”

Charles Sheffield book Proteus In The Underworld

Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 17 (p. 227)

World, Thinking

“Africa is not only on the receiving end. Africa can give a lot to the rest of the world. We are called to work for this to happen.”

Giuseppe Franzelli (1942) Italian priest

Ethiopia-Eritrea peace talks ‘providential’ https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2018-07/ethiopia-eritrea-peace-talks-franzelli.html (17 July 2018)

World

“There’s no time, no time!
There’s no time to rest!
When suddenly death is upon
you, what will you do?
Now you’d better start practicing
the sublime Dharma right away;
Now, quick, hurry-recite the six-syllable mantra.”

Dilgo Khyentse (1910–1991) Bhutanese Buddhist Lama

Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones (1992)

Death, Time

“We strive to build a prosperous society, which will be engaged in creative work, thanks to which citizens can have a decent rest, travel, and children have good health and receive a quality education.”

Sooronbay Jeenbekov (1958) President of Kyrgyzstan

"President Sooronbay Jeenbekov's address to the Nation in connection with the pandemic and the upcoming elections" https://mfa.gov.kg/en/Menu---Foreign-/News/News-and-Events/President-Sooronbay-Jeenbekovs-address-to-the-Nation-in-connection-with-the-pandemic-and-the-upcoming-elections (30 June 2020)

Children, Health, Education, Travel

“Sufism is to eat little and to take rest with God, and to flee from men.”

Sahl al-Tustari (818–896) arabian Sufi, Islamic theologian

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 54

Men, God

“I have always hoped that Asian movies can enjoy better development and can enjoy a better position in relation to the rest of the world. I'm sure this is the hope and goal of all movie directors in Asia.”

Zhang Yimou (1950) Chinese actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer

"Zhang Yimou TalkAsia Interview Transcript" in CNN http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/31/talkasia.zhang.script/ (14 May 2005)

World, Hope

“Only a few people in this world were lucky enough to run into their true partners—it took outrageous luck for it to happen, then the sense to recognize it, and the courage to act. Few could be expected to have all that, and then to have things go well. The rest had to make do.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 8, “The Green and the White” (p. 393)

People, World, Courage, Sense

“I will never eat animals or dairy for the rest of my life.”

Dave Leduc (1991) Canadian Lethwei fighter (born 1991)

On veganism
Source: https://plantbasednews.org/culture/sport/world-champion-lethwei-fighter-dave-leduc-says-being-vegan-is-a-philosophy-not-a-diet
2nd February, 2021

Life, Animals

“We need to pass an immigration bill, look at Germany, look at the rest of the world, we're the only non-xenophobic nation in the world that's a major economy.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

10 June 2014 from same speech, YouTube audio excerpt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKnCCzAv3s4&t=34 via the DC Examiner <br class="br">2010s, 2014

World

“AN ODE TO JIM QUILL

Not too long ago
We lost a man
Who left Eire for Hyde
A diamond in the rough
One hero of our side

Jim Quill he was named
A natural union leader
One could not be blamed
To follow this avid reader

He lead the cotton workers
And the factory hands too
All those years fought at the top
How his life just flew

Trusted by his old pal Cripps
To guarantee the dignity of labour
Rest in peace, Jim Quill
You freed us from our slaver”

Unknown author

From the Cardroom Amalgamation

Life, Peace, Nature

“No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven's glories shine,
And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear.

O God within my breast,
Almighty, ever-present Deity!
Life — that in me has rest,
As I — undying Life — have power in Thee!

Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men's hearts: unutterably vain;
Worthless as withered weeds,
Or idlest froth amid the boundless main...”

Emily Brontë (1818–1848) English novelist and poet

No Coward Soul Is Mine (1846)

Life, Men, God, World

“I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?
’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.

And now good-morrow to our waking souls,
Which watch not one another out of fear;
For love, all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room an everywhere.
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
Where can we find two better hemispheres,
Without sharp north, without declining west?
Whatever dies, was not mixed equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.”

John Donne Songs and Sonnets

Songs and Sonnets (1633), The Good-Morrow

Love, Pleasure, World, Fear

“The warriors that fought for their country, and bled,
Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed;
No stone tells the place where their ashes repose,
Nor points out the spot from the graves of their foes.

They died in their glory, surrounded by fame,
And Victory's loud trump their death did proclaim;
They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast,
And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

"The Battle of Lovell's Pond," poem first published in the Portland Gazette (November 17, 1820).

Death, Victory, Dead, Country

“If we are going to use this top-down approach, we are going to have to be bold. We are going to have to be speculative, but there is good and bad speculation, and this is not an unparalleled activity in science. … Those scientists who have no taste for this sort of speculative enterprise will just have to stay in the trenches and do without it, while the rest of us risk embarrassing mistakes and have a lot of fun.”

Daniel Dennett (1942) American philosopher

Science

“Few but good, the rest off the balls.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Pochi ma buoni, il resto fuori dai coglioni.
Source: prevale.net

““It’s 11:15 p. m. Most people are asleep and I’m just finishing my last exercise with my 30-pound vest. I sit on the bench to have some rest. I look at myself in the mirror. After a while, I ask myself a question: “Is it really still worth it?” Unfortunately, I don’t think I can answer this question. I really can’t. I keep thinking,

“You are alone, no family, you work like a horse, there is no one waiting for you at home.” This doesn’t sound too great, I think. But then another question pops up: “Then why do you keep doing it?” I know the answer to this question without hesitation. “Because I love it.””

Jaromír Jágr (1972) Czech ice hockey winger

Love, People, Family, Exercises

“Take care only of those rare and beautiful people able to give you hope, a will to live and who can give you spontaneous smiles. The rest is food for vultures.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Abbiate cura solo di quelle rare e belle persone in grado di darvi speranza, voglia di vivere e che sappiano regalarvi spontanei sorrisi. Il resto è cibo per avvoltoi.
Source: prevale.net

People, Food, Smile, Beauty

“Be correct and sincere only with people who deserve it. The rest, treat them exactly as they treat you.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Siate corretti e sinceri solo con le persone che lo meritano. Il resto, trattatele esattamente come loro trattano voi.
Source: prevale.net

People, Sincerity

“Friendship, true and indissoluble friendship is confirmed in time of need. The rest be defined knowledge.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: L'amicizia, la vera e indissolubile amicizia si conferma nel momento del bisogno. Il resto si definisce conoscenza.
Source: prevale.net

Friendship, Knowledge, Time

“True, rare and sincere people simply remain themselves, the rest becomes what is convenient.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Le persone vere, rare e sincere rimangono semplicemente se stesse, il resto diventa ciò che conviene.
Source: prevale.net

People, Sincerity

“The instant is the unit of measurement for the conception of an idea. The rest of the time is needed to understand whether it's valid or no.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: L'istante è l'unità di misura per la concezione di un'idea. Il resto del tempo è necessario per capire se è valida o no.
Source: prevale.net

Idea, Understanding, Time

“The unpleasant thoughts of the day often reflect over into dreams, during rest… free your best imagination.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: I pensieri spiacevoli della giornata spesso si riflettono nei sogni, durante il riposo... liberate la vostra immaginazione migliore.
Source: prevale.net

Dreams, Imagination

“In life true progress is an art of balance, a dance between opposites: it's knowing to dose ambition and gratitude, effort and rest, action and reflection.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Nella vita il vero progresso è un'arte di equilibrio, una danza tra opposti: è saper dosare ambizione e riconoscenza, sforzo e riposo, azione e riflessione.
Source: prevale.net

Life, Art, Effort, Dance

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Quotes about rest
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