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writer Arthur Schopenhauer used to say that “sleep is the source of all health and energy.”
“Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death. The higher the interest rate and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.”
your mind and soul are incapable of peace when your body is battling for survival, when it is drawing on its reserves for even basic functioning.
Sleep is the other side of the work we’re doing—sleep is the recharging of the internal batteries whose energy stores we recruit in order to do our work. It is a meditative practice. It is stillness. It’s the time when we turn off. It’s built into our biology for a reason.
great players nap more than lesser ones.
If you want peace, there is just one thing to do. If you want to be your best, there is just one thing to do. Go to sleep.
This is the main question, with what activity one’s leisure is filled. —ARISTOTLE
It was said that he found the process so consuming, he had no time to think of anything but where the next stroke of his axe would fall.
In response to some critics who questioned why he had taken down a particular oak, he explained that removing the rotten members from the forest allowed more light and air to get to the good trees—just as in politics
He collected and read some twenty-five thousand books during his life.)
