Top 1200 Restless Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

All I have to teach you are feelings, the words don't matter much. But as you listen, feel the stillness of my mind, not my mind but of mind...infinite mind.

I hate resting. I feel restless. My preference is to be working.

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?

Talented people are restless at their core.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.

The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose it will often rather precipitate its conclusions than wait for the tardy lights of observation and experiment. There is such a thing, too, as the love of simplicity and system,--a prejudice of the understanding which disposes it to include all the phenomena of nature under a few sweeping generalities,--an indolence which loves to repose on the beauties of a theory rather than encounter the fatiguing detail of its evidences.

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it.

Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare.

In a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay.

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

Restless' was cool. I wish I had more time to put it together.

Why?” He tilted his head. “That’s a tricky one. Could it be your serenity, your quiet manner, your flawless fashion sense?” It did his heart good to see her quick, amused grin. “No, I must be thinking of someone else. It must be your courage, your absolute dedication to balancing scales, that restless mind, and that sweet corner of your heart that pushes you to care so much about so many.” “That’s not me.” “Oh, but it is you, darling Eve.

'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

I'm restless and wildI fall, but I tryI need someone to understand.

I don't know where to place my body. Everyone notices that about me. I'm very restless.

There's a restless feeling knocking on my door today.

I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched.

I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.

I travel all the time. I'm very restless you know.

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

With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

Restless sunflower; cease to move.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

When I did 'Restless,' I felt that was a stepping stone.

In most marriages, there is a contented partner and a restless one.

Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely linear thinker. You can see it in my rhymes. My mind is always jumping around, restless, making connections, mixing and matching ideas, rather than marching in a straight line. That's why I'm always stressing focus. My thoughts chase each other from room to room in my head if I let them, so sometimes I have to slow myself down.

I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.

The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.

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.

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within itself. This does not mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything. It is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

Remember this: with mind you will always be a loser. Even if you are victorious, your victories will be just defeats. With mind there is no victory, with no-mind there is no defeat. You have to shift your whole consciousness from mind to no-mind. Once no-mind is there, everything is victorious. Once the no-mind is there, nothing goes wrong, nothing can go wrong.

The universe was born restless and has never since been still.

I am restless like my father and do two-three things at a time.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

We're a restless bunch, and we have a lot of energy - we're never going to stand still.

Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages are nothing but the mind. The bubbles of water and the flames of fire are nothing but the mind. The flowers of the spring and the moon of the autumn are nothing but the mind. Confusions and dangers are nothing but the mind.

Man is a restless creature, nomadic at heart.

I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

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

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.

Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

I get restless very easily; I don't like to do the same thing twice.

I think I'm pretty calm. But I am very restless and fidgety.

I thank my personal staff for their restless sacrifice for my work.

I have always been restless, had a lot of energy.

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.

I have been restless for as long as I can remember.

Restless at home, and ever prone to range.

When my family isn't alright, I get restless. It just doesn't seem right to me.

A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30.

You can indeed be aware of your body, but you can also be aware of your mind - you can right now notice all the thoughts and ideas and images floating in front of the mind's inward eye. You can, in other words, experience your mind, be aware of your mind. And it's very important to experience your mind directly, cleanly, intensely, because only by bringing awareness to the mind can you begin to transcend the mind and be free of its limitations.