Those who are always tired and exhausted are more susceptible to disease and also risk more often to cause an accident.
Different studies could prove that the immune system shows signs of weakness if humans sleep less than 7 hours a day over a longer period of time. They catch a cold almost 3 times as often as those with 7 to 8 hours of rest or more per night.
As most of you might know, I love inspirational sayings which put essential thoughts in a nutshell. Appropriate to the subject I’ve found some inspiring good night and sleep quotes for you supporting the idea of a healthy life. Feel free to share them with your family and friends.
Good Night
“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” E. Joseph Cossmann
“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” Mahatma Gandhi
“To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.” Sir Walter Scott
“Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.” Millard Fuller
“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on” John Steinbeck
“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.” Leonardo da Vinci
“The minute anyone’s getting anxious I say, you must eat and you must sleep. They’re the two vital elements for a healthy life.” Francesca Annis
“Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.” J.G. Ballard
“Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and preparing of the soul for the next.” John Donne
“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.” Homer, The Odyssey
“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. God is awake.” Victor Hugo
“Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.” Francesca Annis
“No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.” Carrie Snow
“Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
“Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.” Italian Proverb
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” Anthony Burgess
“Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.” Walt Whitman
“Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and preparing of the soul for the next.” John Donne
“Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.” Thomas a Kempis
“Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. The purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.” Swami Sivanada
“Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.” Phillip Chesterfield
“Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.” H Hahn Blavatsky
“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.” William Penn
“Meditation… dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.” Tom Robbins
“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.” Jane Austen
“One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.” Johnson
“When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.” E. F. Benson
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead his eyes are closed.” Albert Einstein
“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.” Mark Twain
“The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes–ah, that is where the art resides!” Arthur Schnabel
“There are pauses amidst stud, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.” W. Alexander
“My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.” Miles Davis
“I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.” Monica Baldwin
“If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.” George Aiken
Most of these inspirational quotes demonstrate the powerful health effect of rest on our body and mind. Nothing supplies you with more energy and happy mood for your working day than waking up well rested in the morning.
Many different scientific studies come to the same conclusion that you shouldn’t fall below a time limit of 5 hours of sleep each night. If you sleep less than 5 hours per night then you narrow down your deep sleep phases which are crucial for your recreation value. Even an afternoon nap can’t balance out this deprivation.
How to cure insomnia
Millions of people get too little sleep. No matter if their problems derive from medical or psychological reasons, most people can do something to help themselves.
I’ve put together a simple 3-step habit change that will help you easier falling asleep. It is a crucial habit in the context of clean eating and your wellbeing: 3-step habit change: How to get sleep
And for those of you think that you’ve tried almost everything I warmly recommend my advanced 3-Week Action Plan