Restlessness Quotes - Page 2

• Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Educational, Failure

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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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 or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.

  Will Ferguson

  Happiness, Promise, Beyond The Horizon

  Will Ferguson (2002). “Happiness”

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• I'm so personally attached to all the characters I met and photographed over the years ... the anthology is like a photographic reliquary that could potentially preserve their grace, fierce joy, and restlessness.

  Hedi Slimane

  Character, Years, Joy

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Silence

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

  Albert Einstein

  Failure, Men, Infinite Intelligence

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• Man's restlessness makes him strive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Strive

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• 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 in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Change, Typical, Haste

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• Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered

  Tom Peters

  Mind, Connections, Littles

  Tom Peters (1999). “The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!”, p.30, Knopf

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• I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Restless

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• Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Stars, Night

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.7, Om Books International

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• Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!

  Pema Chodron

  Inspiration, Practice, Lunch

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.36, Shambhala Publications

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• There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Satisfied

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• Restlessness is my nemesis. It's hard to just chill and sit still.

  Mos Def

  Chill, Nemesis, Stills

  "Song: 'Hip Hop' ('Black on Both Sides')". 1999.

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• A restlessness has seized hold of many of us, a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing, or doing at least two things at once, or going to check some other medium. It's an anxiety about keeping up, about not being left out or getting behind.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Two, Anxiety, Matter

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness”, p.259, Trinity University Press

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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 most deeply human - the search for truth, the insatiable need for the good, hunger for freedom, nostalgia for the beautiful, and the voice of conscience.

  Pope John Paul II

  Beautiful, Faith, Inspiration

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• It is your restlessness that causes chaos.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Causes, Chaos

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• You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

  Pat Robertson

  Heart, Saint, Augustine

  "Conversations with Michael Eisner", www.nbcnews.com. June 20, 2006.

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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. The best people have a heightened awareness of what little of the worst is still in them! Indeed, the divine discontent, the justifiable spiritual restlessness that we feel, is a natural follow-on feeling in the disciple who has taken the Lord's counsel to "make you a new heart and a new spirit." (Ezekiel 18:31.)

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Taken, Heart

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• The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.

  Meindert DeJong

  Longing, Train

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• Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Waiting, Weakness

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• Become totally empty
  Quiet the restlessness of the mind
  Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Mind, Emptiness

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• Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness.

  Gordon Parks

  Hard Work, Long, African American

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• Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.

  Michael Horton

  Taken, Ambition, Son

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Believe, Waiting, Arms

  Elisabeth Elliot (2002). “Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity”, p.149, Revell

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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 gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food - and, above all, a large array of neuroses

  Carl Jung

  Running, Spiritual, Men

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