Quotes About The Restless Mind

#1. Time itself is a creation of the restless mind; space has been created by the same mind to give itself room to wander when in fact there is no space beyond a mental construct that, like all constructs, eventually turns into a prison.

Alan W. Watts

#2. Just focusing on our breath for a couple of minutes is an instant relaxation tool for the restless mind.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#3. You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind.

Remez Sasson

#4. Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#5. Bedtime is fraught with fear and disappointment. When it is just me alone with my restless body and mind, I feel like the whole world is asleep and gone. It's very lonely. I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.

Amy Poehler

#6. When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#7. From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. Frances was not only grieving her sister's loss, but also striving to reconcile in her mind the tragedy with the idea of a loving God. Restless and aching, Frances climbed mountains in the Swiss Alps, where their hotel had a view of beautiful Mount Rigi.

Nancy Carpentier Brown

#9. My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.

John Keats

#10. The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart.

James Joyce

#11. The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more!

Max Lucado

#12. The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution; but by the pleasurable activity of mind excited by the attractions of the journey itself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#13. It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

Joanna Baillie

#14. At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a poet until I could establish a proud name over others. The alternatives battled in my mind and made my life restless.

Matsuo Basho

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

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#16. For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This is a mistake-there is no other word. Where else can the restless human mind find means to tie the infinite in a finite bow?

David Berlinski

#17. But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's mind. She was gentle and quiet in intense bodily suffering, almost in proportion as she had been restless and depressed when there had been no real cause for grief.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#18. To maintain peace in the world, first maintain peace inside of you. A restless mind can never generate beneficial ideas.

Mehek Bassi

#19. Papa is restless in the Field. He cannot find the rhythm. He doesn't know the step. His eye upon the horizon; his mind is in the world. His heart has left us already. His feet will follow.

Kristen Heitzmann

#20. I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#21. Better be with the dead,
Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
Than on the torture of the mind to lie
In restless ecstasy.

William Shakespeare

#22. The unorganized mind will always be restless until its content is reordered.

Ervin Seale

#23. It's as if some bored ethereal being is fiddling with the remote control to his imagination, clicking channel after channel without finding anything to capture his interest for very long.

C. Robert Cargill

#24. Moving the body resolves nothing- sadness, after all travels in the mind.

Shahrukh Husain

#25. When life throws difficulties at us and the mind is restless, emotional resilience will see us through challenging times. We can work through tempestuous emotions and self-doubt and come through them unharmed and avoid self-sabotage and self-harm.

Christopher Dines

#26. In other restless positions you have no power to accept your difficulties, but in the zazen posture which you have acquired by long, hard practice, your mind and body have great power to accept things as they are, whether they are agreeable or disagreeable.

Shunryu Suzuki

#27. Nothing can get spoilt as long the mind is steady, and when it becomes restless, it will spoil. God doesn't give or take from anyone, but because God is in the permanent blissful state, all external actions will go well when one's mind is steadied in Him.

Dada Bhagwan

#28. I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with everything around me.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#29. The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating it from its restlessness; give it peace; make it free from distractions; train it to look inward; make this a habit. This is done by ignoring the external world and removing the obstacles to peace of mind.

Ramana Maharshi

#30. O Krishna, the mind is restless

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#31. Death drowns the unsatisfied man, whose restless mind clutches for greater and greater pleasures.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#32. The human mind is a rover, it constantly returns to think about times past, cogitates upon the future, and actively considers the entire range of alternative plans to meet our daily survival demands.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#33. Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.

Kim Chernin

#34. A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.

Novalis

#35. If one discloses everything in speech he 'designs' in his mind, he will attain Moksha [liberation] sooner. The mind is so restless that it will create whatever design it wants and ruin countless [future] lives.

Dada Bhagwan

#36. The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

Chin-Ning Chu

#37. My sleep that night was restless and unquiet, haunted by the ungodly howls of the horrible creature. Its yellow eyes lingered in my mind's eye as I awoke the next morning,

Brad Meltzer

#38. Time moved forward, but the mind was restless and stubborn, and it skipped to wherever it pleased, often to the past: backward, always backward.

Edan Lepucki