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• We have sought for firm ground and found none.
  The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.

  Max Born

  Rushing, Found, Firm

  Max Born (2013). “The Restless Universe”, p.277, Courier Corporation

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• I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, People, What If

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• Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at least, gives a sense that we can rise above our smallness and divisiveness.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Giving, Want

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.14, PublicAffairs

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• When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or more than once, and what the reaction to it will be. I just make it, and then I live with the consequences, some of which may not be as pleasant as I'd like! I know one thing, however. Many viewers may come out of the theater not satisfied, but they won't be able to forget the movie. I know they'll be talking about it during their next dinner. I want them to be a little restless about my movies, and keep trying to find something in them.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Thinking, Talking, People

  "With Borrowed Eyes: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with David Sterritt, www.filmcomment.com. July/August 2000.

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• The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Important, Legends, Fierce

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the process of becoming. Consciousness itself is a flight from the here and now to the beyond. Our reach always exceeds our grasp, which is what Heaven is for.

  Sam Keen

  Animal, Forever, Heaven

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• It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds with the very rhythm of things and we are forever restless, dissatisfied, frustrated, and aching. We are so overcharged with desire that it is hard to come to simple rest. Desire is always stronger than satisfaction.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Simple, Odds, Forever

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• The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.

  Elissa Schappell

  Stars, Adventure, Dawn

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• It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.

  Hector Berlioz

  Friendship, Heart, Character

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• Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Depression, Fighting, Vitality

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• IBM doesn't want its people to get frustrated and restless because it has them reaching for carrots they can't quit

  Buck Rodgers

  People, Frustrated, Want

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• Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be complacent. We continue to be restless. If we really carry the burden, we are driven to action. We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

  Wangari Maathai

  Giving Up, Suffering, Generations

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• That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas.

  Azar Nafisi

  Imagination, Littles, Great Work

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• Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid himself with one terrific heave of these pleasures, of these habits of this entirely senseless life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Feel Better, Men, Drunk

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.63, Om Books International

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• For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my home:For my restless heart which nothing finite can satisfy: I give Thee thanks, O God. For the invasion of my soul by Thy Holy Spirit: For all human love and goodness that speak to me of Thee: For the fullness of Thy glory outpoured in Jesus Christ: I give Thee thanks, O God.

  John Baillie

  Jesus, Strong, Home

  John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner

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• This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

  Renny Harlin

  Marijuana, Talking, People

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• Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when I was not with Thee. Thou didst call, and cry, and burst my deafness. Thou didst gleam, and glow, and dispell my blindness. Thou didst touch me, and I burned for Thy peace. For Thyself Thou hast made us, and restless our hearts until in Thee they find their ease. Late have I loved Thee, Thou Beauty ever old and ever new. Thou hast burst my bonds asunder; unto Thee will I offer up an offering of praise.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Peace, Heart

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• Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us, curiosity to inspire us, hours free for meditation, words to place our thoughts in order, the question like a restless ghost has prowled the cellars of our consciousness.

  Robert Ardrey

  Dream, Stars, Men

  Robert Ardrey (1977). “The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man”

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• Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into the past and as far afield as the Great Wall of China. With the restless curiosity and meticulous scholarship that have become her hallmark, the author once again has found a gap in my bookshelf and filled it, admirably.

  Steven Saylor

  Wall, Past, Reality

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• I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Past, Redemption, Sin

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

  Henry Vaughan

  Running, Home, Men

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.

  Rockwell Kent

  Reality, Men, Looks

  Rockwell Kent (2000). “Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan”, p.40, Wesleyan University Press

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• Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than that which is.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Regret, Heart, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.21

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• Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountains which sustain life, not the top.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Mean, Unique, Reality

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• I was very restless, but finally I found my way.

  Emma Bonino

  Way, Found, My Way

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