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• Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.

  Robert Burns

  Dream, Spring, Ambition

  Robert Burns (1901). “The Poetry of Robert Burns: Posthumous pieces”

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• Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.

  Mason Cooley

  Boredom, Sleepy

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• There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.

  George Chapman

  Opportunity, Men, Wheels

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• No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in; for it is God who has placed us there, and who holds us in his arms. Can we be unsafe where he has placed us?

  Francois Fenelon

  Desire, Arms, Impatience

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• Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Retirement, Grief, Meditation

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• The search for God means having the courage to set out on a risky path, it means following our restless hearts.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Mean, Path

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• Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord.

  Jim Elliot

  Christian, Heart, World

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• With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.

  Geddy Lee

  Fleeting, Littles, Satisfaction

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• A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion. . . . A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Religious, Passion, Yankees

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• We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Happiness, Passion, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.50, Rajpal & Sons

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• With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Boredom, Bores

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.784, Wordsworth Editions

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• Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.

  Ricardo Semler

  People, Purpose, Demand

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• There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in their manner. An Asiatic horde on the sandy plains of Prussia. Forming among themselves a close corporation, rigorously shut off from the rest of the world.

  Walther Rathenau

  Men, Race, Self

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• Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.

  Agnes Repplier

  Change, Innovation, Delight

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• We may have much that worries us, and we may find many reasons to be concerned. Yet, as President Spencer W. Kimball observed, peace and the Savior's doctrine of forgiveness are inseparably connected: The essence of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.

  Cecil O. Samuelson

  Essence, Worry, Soul

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• Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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• Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins.

  Germaine Greer

  Divorce, Interesting, Lovers

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Passion, Thinking, Long

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1902*). “Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: selected and translated by T. Bailey Saunders”

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• It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to insist upon dulling the consciousness of a natural mother who desires above all things to be aware of the final reward of her efforts, whose ambition is to be present, in full possession of her senses, when the infant she already adores greets her with its first loud cry and the soft touch of its restless body upon her limbs.

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Mother, Ambition, Agony

  Grantly Dick-Read (2006). “Childbirth Without Fear”, p.274, Pollinger in Print

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• When the mind is turbulent, uncontrolled and restless, it is like a pond of water that is filled with mud. Therefore when we look within ourselves, all we perceive is the mud of our material conceptions of life. But when the mind is still through discipline, and through yoga, it is like a pond that has no waves and no turbulence. Then we can perceive through that crystal clear water the eternal nature of our soul.

  Radhanath Swami

  Yoga, Discipline, Water

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• New York does nothing for those of us who are inclined to love her except implant in our hearts a homesickness that baffles us until we go away from her, and then we realize why we are restless. At home or away, we are homesick for New York not because New York used to be better and not because she used to be worse but because the city holds us and we don't know why.

  Maeve Brennan

  New York, Home, Heart

  Maeve Brennan (2015). “The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker”, p.79, Counterpoint

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• Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble, a restless mind: a thousand difficulties must be contemn'd with which a mean heart would be broken: many attempts must be made to no purpose: much Treasure must sometimes be scatter'd without any return: much violence, and vigour of thoughts must attend it: some irregularities, and excesses must be granted it, that would hardly be pardon'd by the severe Rules of Prudence.

  Thomas Sprat

  Mean, Heart, Science

  Thomas Sprat (1722). “The History of the Royal Society of London: For the Improving of Natural Knowledge”, p.392

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• Except I think it feels more like an empty stomach than a broken heart. An aching hollowness that food can't cure. You know. You've felt it yourself, I bet. You hurt all the time, you're restless, you can't think straight, you sort of wish you were dead but what you really want is for everything to be the same as it was when you were still with her.. or him

  Richard Laymon

  Hurt, Heart, Thinking

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• The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their serial fieldwork experiences and their lives. Illustrating the dense interweaving of the personal and the professional that is the hallmark of anthropology as a vocation, these essays are at once affectively deep reflections, and clear-eyed assessments, of lives often lived 'between here and there.' Alma Gottlieb's idea to stimulate these articles and bring together this collection was inspired.

  Sherry Ortner

  Powerful, Reflection, Assessment

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