Restlessness Quotes
107 quotes by 87 authors
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Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary…
— Thomas Brooks
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There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant…
— Sun Tzu
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I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.
— Sue Grafton
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The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness.…
— Pema Chodron
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How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His…
— Carl Jung
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You can't realise love or yourself until you are still enough to drop down through the restlessness and frustrations into that deeper level of your…
— Barry Long
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Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love…
— Will Ferguson
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You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and pulsates what is…
— Pope John Paul II
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Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.
— Rajneesh
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I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of…
— Vikram Seth
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Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding…
— Lyonel Feininger
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When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet,…
— John Steinbeck
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. . . just as God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, as we become more like Him, neither can we.…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.
— Gautama Buddha
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Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.
— William Temple
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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
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Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and…
— David James Duncan
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