Andrews McMeel Publishing - Sleep Tight: Bedtime Quotes to Soothe the Soul

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. William Penn O sleep, O gentle sleep!
Natures soft nurse, how have I frightened thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down,
And steep my senses in forgetfulness. William Shakespeare Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

William Blake I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when Im awake, you know? Ernest Hemingway The silence that is in the starry sky,
The sleep that is among the lonely hills. William Wordsworth Sleep is that golden chain that ties
health and our bodies together. Thomas Dekker The more man meditates upon
good thoughts, the better will be
his world and the world at large. confucius They who have compared our lives
to a dream were... right....
We wake sleeping, and sleep waking.

Michel de Montaigne There is a time for many words,
and there is also a time for sleep. Homer The moon doth with delight
Look round her when the heavens are bare;
Waters on a starry night
Are beautiful and fair. William Wordsworth Take rest; a field that has rested
gives a bountiful crop. Ovid Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak. Miguel de Cervantes How beautiful it is to do nothing,
and then to rest afterward. Spanish proverb Let her sleep, for when she wakes,
she will move mountains.

Napoleon Bonaparte Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world. Heraclitus A well-spent day brings happy sleep. Leonardo da Vinci Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. Sir Francis Bacon All men whilst they are awake
are in one common world; but...
each of them, when he is asleep,
is in a world of his own. Plutarch A good laugh and a long sleep
are the best cures in the doctors book. Irish proverb We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare Time, motion, and wine cause sleep. Ovid Now I see the secret of making the best persons.
It is to grow in the open air and
to eat and sleep with the earth. Walt Whitman Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. Ralph Waldo Emerson When you sleep in a house your thoughts are as high as the ceiling, when you sleep outside they are as high as the stars. Bedouin proverb Conscience is like a baby.
It has to go to sleep before you can. D. H. H.

Lawrence Dont fight with your pillow,
but lay down your head
And kick every worriment out of the bed. Edmund Vance Cooke If you do what you love,
it is the best way to relax. Christian Louboutin The moon is at her full, and riding high,
Floods the calm fields with light.
The airs that hover in the summer sky
Are all asleep tonight. William C. Bryant The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. Jules Renard He that doesnt know his bed
is too hard sleeps well.

Danish proverb Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. Antoine de Saint-Exupry For my part I know nothing
with any certainty, but the sight
of the stars makes me dream. Vincent van Gogh A man is a small thing, and the night
is very large and full of wonders.

Edward Plunkett So let us welcome peaceful evening in. William Cowper A drowsy murmur floats into the air,
Like thistle-down. Slumber is everywhere. Thomas Bailey Aldrich There is a calmness to a life
lived in gratitude, a quiet joy. Ralph H. Blum Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill-side; and now tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: Do I wake or sleep? John Keats Eat less food to find more sleep.

Arabic proverb Silently, one by one,
in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars,
the forget-me-nots of the angels. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A cool breeze stirred my hair
at that moment, as the night wind
began to come down from the hills, but
it felt like a breath from another world. Francis Marion Crawford Touch us gently, Time!
Let us glide adown thy stream
Gently, as we sometimes glide
Through a quiet dream! Bryan Procter I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on,
The windows and the stars illumined, one by one,
The rivers of dark smoke pour upward lazily,
And the moon rise and turn them silver. I shall see
The springs, the summers, and the autumns slowly pass;
And when old Winter puts his blank face to the glass,
I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight,
And build me stately palaces by candlelight. Charles Baudelaire Nights the better half of life. Goethe No more words.

In the name of this place
we drink in with our breathing,
stay quiet like a flower.
So the nightbirds will start singing. Rumi Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew
Thee from report divine, and heard thy name,
Did he not tremble for this lovely frame,
This glorious canopy of light and blue? Joseph Blanco White Twilight drops her curtain down,
and pins it with a star. Lucy Maud Montgomery How beautiful is night!
A dewy freshness fills the silent air;
No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain,
Breaks the serene of heaven. Robert Southey People seek out retreats for themselves
in the country, by the seaside, on the mountains.... But nowhere can
a person find a retreat more full
of peace than ones own soul.
Make use then of this retirement
continually and regenerate thyself. Marcus Aurelius Focusing on the act of breathing clears the mind of all daily distractions and clears our energy, enabling us to better connect with the Spirit within.

Unknown Empty yourself of everything.
Let the mind rest at peace. Lao-tzu Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrows eye,
Steal me awhile from mine own company. William Shakespeare Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center. Buddha My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires. Hazrat Inayat Khan When you own your breath,
nobody can steal your peace.

Unknown You know that our breathing is the
inhaling and exhaling of air. The organ that serves for this is the lungs that lie round the heart, so that the air passing through them thereby envelops the heart. Thus breathing is a natural way to the heart. And so, having collected your mind within you, lead it into the channel of breathing through which air reaches the heart and, together with this inhaled air, force your mind to descend into
the heart and to remain there. Nicephorus the Solitary Moonlight is sculpture. Nathaniel Hawthorne It may be quieter to sleep alone,
but not warmer.

Italian proverb At night, I open the window and
ask the moon to come and press its
face against mine. Breathe into me.
Close the language-door and open the love-window.
The moon wont use the door, only the window. Rumi Calmness is the cradle of power. Josiah Gilbert Holland Flow with whatever may happen
and let your mind be free. Chuang Tzu The more tranquil a man becomes,
the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of the mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.