‎Come ye yourselves apart....and rest a while....

I often struggle with guilt because I'm so often tired, and or over stimulated and need some quiet time for myself every day to keep functioning reasonably well. I know I'm a better mom and wife with proper rest, but it's easy to compare myself to more energetic, capable people and feel guilty, so these quotes encouraged me today.

‎"Come ye yourselves apart....and rest a while...." 

Mark 6:31

Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.

    Source: The Minister's Fainting Fits, Lectures to My Students, Lecture XI, 1856.

The bow cannot be always bent without fear of breaking. Repose is as needful to the mind as sleep to the body... Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.

    Source: Lectures to My Students.