Restlessness Quotes

107 quotes by 86 authors

They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of… — Samuel Johnson
Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering instruct us in… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. — Elisabeth Elliot
When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within… — B.K.S. Iyengar
As long as our restlessness, anxiety, and feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each… — Henri Nouwen
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. — Elwyn Brooks White
But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change… — Gustav Stresemann
The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Man's restlessness makes him strive. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to… — Andre Gide
I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete… — John Steinbeck
Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men… — Phyllis McGinley
Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed;… — Henry Thomas Buckle
No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness. — Andrew Bird
In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety,… — Jacques Monod
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. — Joseph Conrad
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been… — Joseph Conrad
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. — Thomas A. Edison
If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then… — Hubert H. Humphrey

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