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• Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Pain, Helping, Blame

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• The war you feel within - that restlessness, the unending uncertainty - is not to be dismissed, avoided, hated. That internal conflict is not dark, it is a beaming light trying to focus you, the rolling thunderous call of courage, the rays of greatness seeking to explode beyond your skin to touch once more the Spirit of Possibility.

  Brendon Burchard

  War, Dark, Greatness

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• The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Worry, New Day, Anxiety

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• ... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Space, Errors, Effort

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• To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Running, Dream, Strong

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• Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Avail yourself often, then, of this retirement, and so continually renew yourself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Retirement, Space, Soul

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• This world is not the same to all people. Each one lives in his little domain....Peace and harmony may reign in one person's world; where strife and restlessness in anothers. But whatever the circumstances of one's environment, it consists of both an inner and an outer world. The outside world is the one in which your life engages in action and interaction. The world inside of you determines your happiness or unhappiness.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  People, World, May

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• Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Book, Hands

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• This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up until now: restlessness, uncertainty, lies. And in the place of all this you will write the word courage.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lying, Book, Teaching

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• The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself. Why should the lord of the country flit about like a fool? If you let yourself be blown to and fro, you lose touch with your root. If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.

  Laozi

  Country, Moving, Home

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• But look within and watch the stuff coming up-restlessness, anxiety, impatience, pain-just watch it come up and don't get involved. Much to your surprise, it will simply go away. It rises, it passes away. As simple as that. There is another word for self-discipline. It is patience.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Pain, Simple, Self

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom.

  Rajneesh

  Boredom, Feels, Products

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• The development and/or revelation of a CEO's potential for great leadership requires slow escalations of experiences that involve pressure, each time given the tools to succeed. Successful experience breeds confidence, as well as an eventual restlessness to try more.

  Justin Menkes

  Successful, Trying, Succeed

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• The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Travel, Home

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.278, Library of America

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• There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess.

  John Ruskin

  Ambition, Men, Two

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation”, p.343

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• If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London; for life in the country is the only state which has always completely satisfied me, and I had never been allowed to gratify it, even for a few weeks at a time. Now I was to know the joys of six or seven months a year among fields and woods of my own, and the childish ecstasy of that first spring outing at Mamaroneck swept away all restlessness in the deep joy of communion with the earth.

  Edith Wharton

  Country, Spring, Years

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• So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)

  Pema Chodron

  Loneliness, Warrior, Journey

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• Feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each other's eyes to the great human gifts among all people we can indeed make peacemaking a way of being.

  Henri Nouwen

  Gratitude, Eye, Mutual Support

  "Peacework: Prayer, Resistance, Community".

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• 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 himself finds fulfillment.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Self, Practice

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• [Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.

  Robin McKinley

  Children, Reading, Adventure

  Robin McKinley (2016). “The Blue Sword”, p.8, HarperCollins

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• The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Earth, Surface, Fertile

  Kurt Vonnegut (1970). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, New York : Dell

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• 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 cleanliness.

  John Steinbeck

  Sitting Still, Celibacy, Cleanliness

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• 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 a vacant mind, that they are not so much led by hope as driven by disgust, and wish rather to leave the country than to see the town.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Cities, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.387

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• And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Greatness, Thinking, Incompleteness

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.254

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• All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you.

  Rumi

  Desire, Poison, Heal

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