Quotes About Restfulness

#1. 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.

Wassily Kandinsky

#2. It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company
for he did all the talking.

Mark Twain

#3. True restfulness, though, is a form of awareness, a way of being in life. It is living ordinary life with a sense of ease, gratitude, appreciation, peace and prayer. We are restful when ordinary life is enough.

Ronald Rolheiser

#4. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. The conclusion affirmed by the narrative is that wherever YHWH governs as an alternative to Pharaoh, there the restfulness of YHWH effectively counters the restless anxiety of Pharaoh.

Walter Brueggemann

#6. Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#7. And having returned from the woods, we remember with regret its restfulness. For all creatures there are in place, hence at rest. In their most strenuous striving, sleeping and waking, dead and living, they are at rest. In the circle of the human we are weary with striving, and are without rest.

Wendell Berry

#8. 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.

David Whyte

#9. I idly wished for something else, for any situation that was neither this forsaken chamber nor the tenseness of Burrich's room. For a restfulness that perhaps I had once known somewhere else but could no longer recall. And so I drowsed into oblivion.

Robin Hobb

#10. My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.

Sheena Easton

#11. God is far away only from them that have never come to Him through Jesus Christ.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.

Gloria Naylor

#13. The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Rabindranath Tagore

#14. City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

Bruce Babbitt

#15. Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

Steve Jobs

#16. Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

Saint Augustine

#17. The thing that keeps me awake at night is a nexus between terrorism and massive destruction ... the possibility that a terrorist organization could either acquire a ready-made weapon or fabricate something improvised that would have a catastrophic effect for us.

Michele Flournoy

#18. The goal in Pietism was the service of God in ministry to the world

Donald G. Bloesch

#19. Good companies are always fundraising. Whether you're meeting people or considering firms, you're always fundraising.

Kevin Systrom

#20. I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane.

Randy Cohen

#21. I'm in no hurry to do anything. I'll probably lie here for the rest of the day. (Great term, that, 'rest of the day'.)

Fennel Hudson

#22. The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment.

Judd Gregg

#23. Suzanne Collins could have chosen to give us Coin as president, an example of a continuous pattern, mistakes just waiting to be made again. Instead she gives us a song. And children. And though "they play on a graveyard" (Mockingjay), the important thing is that they are free to play.

Leah Wilson

#24. We have to be diligent in serving God and in fulfilling the task set before us by Him

Sunday Adelaja

#25. Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone.

Mata Amritanandamayi