Every December I take two or three weeks off. After an entire season of training and climbing, my body needs the break.
Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.
Rest, rest, rest, rest, rest. Nutrition is obviously very important, but rest is equally important. At rest is when your body is trying to recover.
Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?
When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.
Sleep is important for a comic - like it is for a lot of people.
Not playing every day, I kind of healed up a little bit from the little injuries that I had the year before. Then, when I got home this winter and my body wasn't beat up, I said, 'Wait a minute, this may work out.'
...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.
She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head on the door frame. My breath bleeds. My heartbeat drowns my ears.
Every corporeal substance, so far forth as it is corporeal, has a natural fitness for resting in every place where it may be situated by itself beyond the sphere of influence of a body cognate with it.
Patience and rest are key. Knowing how your body feels. You're the only person that knows how your body feels. The way of going about it is expressing it to your trainers and your coaches so you won't damage anything else.
He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think.
...till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion.
Being tired isn't anything. What's important is the mind. The body being tired isn't important. You can get over the body being tired by resting for a half-hour or an hour. What's important is whether the mind is tired.
Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.
Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.
Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both.
