Repose Quotes

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. Henry David Thoreau
Nature Anxiety Stated Infinite Repose Leisure Toil Moments
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Helena Blavatsky
Depression Time Man Ignorance Law Wait Enthusiasm Action Other Results Put Wisely Periods Tides Hand Accord Repose Patiently Act
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. Thomas Merton
Loneliness You Vision Obscurity Beyond Without Motion Limits Discover Labor Begin Repose Infinity Act Fulfillment Activities Whose Deepest Extend Profound Here Desire
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Morning Earned Some Something Sees Attempted Close Begun Task Repose Done Each Evening Each Morning Night
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. Frank Lloyd Wright
Work Art Simplicity Value True Qualities True Value Repose Any Measure
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Happy Words Unhappy Mind Whatever Own Live Consists Admit More Self True Feel Longer Importance Making Making Up Up Repose Being Which Being Happy Mean Meaning Meaning Of Usual
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. Gaston Bachelard
Morning Soul Rest Sets Our Possession Out Must Rarely Shadows Only Opens Within Does Repose Being Us Sweep Body Phantoms Inn Belong Night Sleep
When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. Leonard Cohen
Time You Yourself Sense Thinking About Repose Stop Certain
A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature. Loretta Young
Face Fall Stars Every Feature Talk She Repose Owner Lovely Apart Really
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. Cyril Connolly
Nature Water Our Like Truest Repose
Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse. William Godwin
Man Busy Recollection Must Would Spirit Generous Contemplation Sort Vulgar Occupation Always Inevitably Woe Repose Hold Intercourse Turmoil Engagements Gross Hard Who Whom Seasons Desire
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth Mind Every Must Both Between Make Repose Cannot Choice
It is my growing conviction that the Baptist churches in America are behind the age in missionary spirit. They now and then make a spasmodic effort to throw off a nightmare debt of some years' accumulation, and then sink back into unconscious repose. Adoniram Judson
Age Conviction Back Churches Some Spirit Throw Unconscious Missionary Make Years Sink Off Debt Effort Accumulate America Repose Behind Baptist Then Growing Now Now And Then Nightmare
The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them - the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives. Alain de Botton
Friendship Seriously Whatever Consider Our Our Lives Visions Ourselves Would Solution Find Take Consumers Perhaps Qualities Surprisingly Very Repose Lovely Them Ask Then Us Should Togetherness Help Lives Actually
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. Edward Coke
Home Defence Everyone Castle Well Him His Repose Against Fortress Injury Violence
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. Henry Adams
Combat Obstacles Got Get Repose Order
I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it. Louis XIV
Will Made Tormented Bought Know Powerlessness Been Repose
You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done. Louis XIV
Death Me You Father Will Rest Calm Other Gave Immediately Wills See Kings Only Nevertheless Wished Know Until Well Became His Nor Repose Done After Many
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves. William Blake
Travel Dream Leaves Repose Travelers Among
All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime. Isaac D'Israeli
Crime Extremely Rate Almost Genteel Repose Any Golden Vice Little Much Palaces

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