Be Inspired to Have a Good Night Sleep with these Quotes

28.7.15

Be Inspired to Have a Good Night Sleep with these Quotes

I can't believe that for the past three days, I've not had a good night sleep. Something isn't just right. Oh Lord, fix me. I need me some good sleep . . .

25 Inspirational Quotes About Sleep

These are quotes by famous actors, writers, and celebrities who have spent time meditating over the importance of sleeping. Something tells me a few of them were in my shoes when they brought these words together.

I find their quotes surprisingly insightful. And some even make me chuckle. Trust me, you'll find them (at least two) very inspiring.

For those who pray to have a good sleep like me. . .

- 1 -

"I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"

~ Ernest Hemingway

- 2 -

Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

~ Thomas Dekker

- 3 -

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

~ Dale Carnegie

- 4 -

No day is so bad that it can't be fixed with a nap.

~ Carrie Snow

- 5 -

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

~ William Blake

- 6 -

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

~ Joan Klempner

- 7 -

"O bed! O bed! delicious bed!

That heaven upon earth to the weary head."

~ Thomas Hood

- 8 -

"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

- 9 -

"Sleeping is not time wasting."

~ Mike Wilson

- 10 -

"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one."

~ Leo J. Burke

- 11 -

"Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing."

~ Bill Cosby

- 12 -

"Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters."

~ Ogden Nash

- 13 -

"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow."

~ Charlotte Bronte

- 14 -

"Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity,

Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify,

Weary bodies refresh and mollify."

~ Ovid

- 15 -

"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

- 16 -

"Sleep is the best meditation."

~ Dalai Lama

- 17 -

"Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

- 18 -

"We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile."

~ Earl Nightingale

- 19 -

"Your life is a reflection of how you sleep, and how you sleep is a reflection of your life."

~ Dr. Rafael Pelayo

- 20 -

"Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head

And kick every worriment out of the bed."

~ Edmund Vance Cooke

- 21 -

"It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbour's as are their daytime hopes and aspirations."

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

- 22 -

"The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to."

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

- 23 -

"The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world."

~ Edgar Watson Howe

- 24 -

"Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore, and you sleep alone!"

~ Anthony Burgess

- 25 -

"The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more."

~ Wilson Mizener

After what happened last night and the previous night, I came up with mine:

"When you can't sleep, figure out why. When you have figured it out, keep a memory of it."

~ Amakamedia.

Secret: Some years ago, while I was watching my weight (I still do tho), I used to think sleeping made me fat. I dreaded sleep. I deprived myself of a good sleep. But that's all in the past. I love to sleep as much as I can now. I so want my sleep back. Maybe we should start a new movement for #BringBackOurSleep. You in? Lol.

On a lighter note. A good night sleep should be regarded as a blessing from God. When you've got some, be grateful.

The Bible says in Proverbs 3:24b,