#restless

Groping blindly in the darkness, he sank between the white mounds of cool feathers and slept as he fell, across the bed or with his head downward, pushing deep into the softness of the pillows, as if in sleep he wanted to drill through, to explore completely, that powerful massif of feather bedding rising out of the night. ↗

— Bruno Schulz

#dreams #rest #restless-sleepers #sleep #sleeping

...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#intellect #restlessness #siddhartha #soul #intellect

I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#bounce #did #distracts #even #i

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#certain #chair #energy #extremely #forceful

God takes everyone he loves through a desert. It is his cure for our wandering hearts, restlessly searching for a new Eden... The best gift of the desert is God's presence... The protective love of the Shepherd gives me courage to face the interior journey. ↗

— Paul E. Miller

#god #prayer #restless #courage

RELATIONSHIPS ARE SUCH MATTERS WHERE WE CAN NOT HAVE CUT OUT RULES AND SET FRAME OF MINDS BUT CERTAINLY WE CAN AVOID AND DIMINISH THE DEATH RATES ASSOCIATED TO BAD MARRIAGES – WHEN A LIFE IS SAVED, ONE CAN ALWAYS MAKE IT SUCCESSFUL". ↗

— Rashmi Singh

#taming-the-restless-mind #death

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot. ↗

— Louis Simpson

#capitalism #freedom #frontier #individualism #liberalism

I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things. ↗

— Hugo Claus

#injustice #life #restlessness #unfairness #unhappiness

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#accomplish #butterflies #creative #creative people #essential

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. ↗

— Victor Cherbuliez

#cheerfully #detail #ease #foresight #habit