in the summer of 1845 Edward Little was sixteen years old…

“I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should…

— Hugo Claus

But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And…

— Amy Tan

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as…

— Pema Chodron

It is your restlessness that causes chaos.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each other's eyes to the great human…

— Henri Nouwen

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is so much restlessness and chaos in the society, and that's what music depicts.

— Liz Mitchell

“I didn’t want the same things that they wanted, and they should know this. They should know my difference, they should sense my unfathomable…

— Ling Ma

“I’ve come across people who say that there is a sort of inborn restlessness in the human spirit and an urge to change one’s…

— Seneca

“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.”

— Albert Einstein

“Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway.”

— Roselle Mercier Montgomery

So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even…

— Pema Chodron

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

— Louis Kronenberger

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

— G. Stanley Hall

“Staying, we all know, is not the norm in our mobile culture. A great deal of money is spent each day to create desires…

— Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove