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Diane Bjorling

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Quotes about Sleep
4/29/2013 2:23:50 AM


People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. ~ ~ George Orwell

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
~ Robert Frost

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
~ Victor Hugo

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
~ W. C. Fields

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
~ Chanakya

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
~ John Steinbeck

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
~ Marlo Thomas

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
~ Walt Whitman

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
~ Lord Byron

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
~ Erich Fromm

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
~ William Penn

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Roger Macdivitt .

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RE: Quotes about Sleep
4/29/2013 7:46:25 AM

This is my favourite sleep quote by far.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. ~Charlotte Brontë

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Roger Macdivitt .

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RE: Quotes about Sleep
4/29/2013 7:47:38 AM

Also

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he'd make a fortune. ~Griff Niblack

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RE: Quotes about Sleep
4/29/2013 10:25:27 AM
Sleeping is my favorite activity. :) Thank you Diane for the great quotes.

Here are a few from me ..

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway

Sleep is the best meditation.
Dalai Lama


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Diane Bjorling

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RE: Quotes about Sleep
4/29/2013 1:48:36 PM
Good morning Roger and Nerma...thank you for adding to the quotes on sleep :-)

My favorite quote is the one by Robert Frost that I have used for years in variety of situations

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep....in fact here is the complete poem

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sounds the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
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