Mental Restlessness Quotes & Sayings

When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back, and I'd say, "Oh, those folks got kids. They need some books." I'd knock on their door and sell them a set of encyclopedias, and those books were from $300 to $600. I'd look around the house, and if there wasn't that much furniture in the house, I felt a little bad about selling a $600 set of books to people who couldn't afford a couch. So I didn't last at that job very long. — Willie Nelson

Gerthe also talked about travel. She talked about living in Jamaica. She joked about her husband and her haircut, because she is more than the earthquake. A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. — Amy Poehler

The idea is to make the ingredients sing, not a grand opera, but a jolly chanson. — Marie-Pierre Moine

If a reasoned creator set the stars in their place then we must be capable of understanding them - we must also be creatures of reason, of order! — Sarah Perry

You independent women these days don't need to play by the old rules anymore. Embrace it. Chase your man. But be sensible.' (Daisy's Nanna, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 400) — Danielle Weiler

It is important to make a dream of life and a dream reality. — Pierre Curie

I think we're all connected, everyone on earth. — Nicola Yoon

Sometimes you had to pretend, everyone knew that. Pretend to be happy. Pretend to be brave. Pretend to be strong. If you pretended long enough, it eventually came true. Pretending — V.E Schwab

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness. — William Temple

Will paused for a moment and then grinned, that rare grin of his that lit up his face and changed the whole nature of it. It was a smile Tessa had worried once was gone forever, gone with Jem down into the darkness of the Silent City. Jem was not dead, but some bit of Will had gone with him when he'd left, some bit chiseled out of Will's heart and buried down there among the whispering bones. And Tessa had worried, for that first week just after, that Will would not recover, that he would always be a sort of ghost, wandering about the Institute, not eating, always turning to speak to someone who was not there, the light in his face dying as he remembered and fell silent. — Cassandra Clare

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state. — Martin McGuinness

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay. — Alan Cumming

When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul. — Paramahansa Yogananda

was a parasite with nasty teeth, — Sandra Owens