R Quotes
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“Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.”
Source: The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories
“Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens, it's always, who's responsible for this?”
“Responsiblity is the great developer of men.”
“Respétate a ti mismo, y un día el mundo entero te respetará.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by the systematic repression of certain emotions and affects which, as such are normal components of human nature. Their repression leads to the constant tendency to indulge in certain kinds of value delusions and corresponding value judgments. The emotions and affects primarily concerned are revenge, hatred, malice, envy, the impulse to detract, and spite.”
Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings
“Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for some past era (Hellas, the Middle Ages, etc.) is not primarily based on the values of that period, but on the wish to escape from the present. Then all praise of the “past” has the implied purpose of downgrading present-day reality.”
Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings
“Rest a while as the new growth takes place. Observe changes in your outer and inner world. This is your foundation for the next step.”
“Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you'll awaken next to someone who loves you.”
Source: Married by Morning
“Rest and activity are the steps of progress.”
“Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Rest and be thankful.”
Source: Yarrow Revisited: And Other Poems
“Rest and comfort are two different things. Rest is a planned temporary time to refresh and refocus the leader. Comfort is when you settle into unproductive routines and accept satisfactory or unsatisfactory results.”
“Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.”
Source: The Growth of the Law
“Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.”
“Rest and play, are as vital to our health as nutrition and exercise”
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“Rest and your energy will be restored.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Rest:
as beautiful and necessary a task as any.
How else can we remember to breathe?
to think?
to shut out the world?
to not think?
to regain the strength
to take on the world?
to take in the world
with all our senses?
to dream?”
“Rest as if you’ll live forever; work as if you’ll die today.”
“Rest as soon as there is pain.”
Source: Hippocratic writings
“Rest as the awareness that is aware without using thought.”
Source: Shift Into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Openhearted Awareness
“Rest assured, all illegal activities in astronomy will be covered up by the corrupt corporate controlled government.”
“Rest assured,” he said, when he managed to find his voice, “there will always be a position for you on my ship.”
Her face brightened with her clever, beautiful smile. “Will you let me climb up into the rigging? Reef the sails?”
A burst of thunder rolled through him. “Absolutely not.”
She laughed again. “As if you could stop me.”
Source: Passenger
“Rest assured that I, Kordelia Silverheart, will find your happy ending, even if I have to create it myself.”
Source: Cupid's Serenade
“Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such beauty in them that they will fill you with happiness.”
Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting
“Rest assured that long patience and jealously concealed sorrows have shaped, refined, and hardened that woman who makes people exclaim: "She's made of steel!"
She's simply "made of woman," and that's sufficient.”
Source: The Vagabond
“Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president.”
“Rest assured that our work is not over because our work has never been only hunting Nazi war criminals. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an institution, a worldwide institution, engaged in combating anti-Semitism, bigotry, racism. And unfortunately, did we say goodbye to genocide after Hitler died in the bunker? No, we didn't. So in such a world, I'm afraid there will always be a need for organizations like the Simon Wiesenthal Center.”
“Rest assured that the most fervid revivalism will wear itself out in mere smoke, if it be not maintained by the fuel of teaching.... Sound teaching is the best protection for the heresies which ravage right and left among us.”
Source: Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1
“Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.”
“Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.”
Source: The Bach Flower Remedies
“Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.”
“Rest assured, the government is ready to support and enhance the competitiveness of the biotechnology industry.”
“Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.”
“Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940
“Rest back again."
He does and then groans when I start massaging the shampoo into his hair. The sound goes straight to my core. I work slowly. Slower than I should, but it feels good to have my hands on him. My fingers glide over the hard curve of his skull, down to the thick cords of his neck.
"God," he whispers. "Please don't stop."
His muscles are so strong here that it hurts my fingers to dig in, but his noises of pleasure and the way he leans into my touch keep me going.
Foam rinses around my hands; water trickles down the tan column of his neck to wander over the hills and valleys of his wide-set shoulders. My lips swell with the need to follow those waterdrops, press against his wet skin. I bite the inside of my cheek.
Macon sighs, his lids lowering, and I move closer, my breasts hitting the back of the tub. I push along the rise of his shoulders. They're like silk over granite, slippery wet and warm. He grunts, and I do it again. He leans into my hands, whimpering softly. I take the moment to rise and turn on the taps again. We don't speak as I rinse the shampoo from his hair.
It's a strange thing, taking care of him this way. I'm turned on--- more than I thought I could be. It's a low hum in my body, the lush swelling of my breasts, of my sex. It's in the painful tenderness in my nipples and the sensitive edges of my lips. I want to savor him like I do fine dark chocolate, letting each bite melt on my tongue, lingering over the delicious taste of it.”
Source: Dear Enemy
“Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.”
“Rest doesn’t require a day off—it starts with small, intentional breaks woven into your routine.”
Source: Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women
“Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with”
Source: Cinnamon Kiss
“Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.”
Source: House Rules: A Novel
“Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensities to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deep space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning.”
“Rest for renewal.”
“Rest forever, tired heart.
The final illusion has perished.
The one we believed eternal is gone.
Just like that. Out the door desire
follows hope. Rest forever.
Enough throbbing. Nothing deserves your attention
nor is the earth worth a sigh.
Bitterness and boredom is life,
nothing else ever, and the world is mud.
Quiet now. Despair for the last time.
Fate gives us dying as a gift.
Now turn from the hills, the ugly hidden power
which rules for the common evil
and the infinite vanity of it all.”
“Rest," he whispers against my temple, and despite my sleepiness, the feel of his lips moving across my skin makes me shiver. "I'll be here when you wake up."
"Oh, God," I mumble, sliding my arm over Eli's chest and snuggling close. "Have we become that old couple that doesn't have sex anymore?"
Eli's chuckle rumbles against my ear. "We had sex this morning."
"Okay," I say already being pulled into slumber.”
Source: Eventide
“Rest if you must, but don’t unpack in the valley — this is a pit stop, not your permanent address.”
“Rest if you must, but never quit.”
“Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.”
“Rest in patience; everything ripens at its appointed hour.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Rest in peace: Historic Lahaina town.”
“Rest in Peace?’ Why that phrase? That’s the most ridiculous phrase I’ve ever heard! You die, and they say ‘Rest in Peace!’ …Why would one need to ‘rest’ when they’re dead?! I spent thousands of years of world history resting. While Agamemnon was leading his ships to Troy, I was resting. While Ovid was seducing women at the chariot races, I was resting. While Jeanne d’Arc was hallucinating, I was resting. I wait until airplanes are scuttling across the sky to burst out onto the scene, and I’m only going to be here for a short while, so when I die, I certainly won’t need to rest again! Not while more adventures of the same kind are going on.”
Source: Rooftop Soliloquy