Top 159 Restlessness Quotes & Sayings

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

There is an inherent creative restlessness at Laika where we always want to challenge ourselves.

Man's restlessness makes him strive.

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.

There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unused power of whatever kind. This is the restlessness of the germ within the seed, struggling upward and downward towards its proper life.it is a striving full of pain, the cutting of tender flesh by the fetters of the captive as he struggles against their pitilessness.

Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

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.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

All of them had a restlessness in common.

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.

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I'm left out.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

You can't realise love or yourself until you are still enough to drop down through the restlessness and frustrations into that deeper level of your being

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

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

There is so much restlessness and chaos in the society, and that's what music depicts.

I suppose I've got a restlessness about me which is only alleviated by travel and I like being on the road.

The creative person finds himself in a state of turmoil, restlessness, emptiness, and unbearable frustration unless he expresses his inner life in some creative way.

We all have restlessness in long-term relationships.

Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of leisure, an inability to be at leisure, that went together with idleness; that the restlessness of work-for-work's sake arose from nothing other than idleness. There is a curious connection in the fact that the restlessness of a self-destructive work-fanatacism should take its rise from the absence of a will to accomplish something.

It is your restlessness that causes chaos.

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

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.

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

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

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.

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

I have this restlessness. I'm relentless to do things. My wife will say I'm an absolute nightmare.

Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the self, in a very immediate way.

Gulaal' gave me a chance to channelise my restlessness into a character that had layers of complexity.

While I don't know if I exist in the land of the elite, I'm definitely on the battlefield with restlessness.

I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.

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

Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.

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.

With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.

If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

I'm always pushing back against the last thing I did in some way, and some of that is restlessness and a sense of limited time.

I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man." When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.

I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness.

The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.

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

I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.

Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours

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

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

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

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness.

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.

Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.