{"quotes":[{"text":"It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world. But not if the river is navigable, as ours is. On pretty weekends in the summer, this riverbank is the very verge of the modern world. It is a seat in the front row, you might say. On those weekends, the river is disquieted from morning to night by people resting from their work.This resting involves traveling at great speed, first on the road and then on the river. The people are in an emergency to relax. They long for the peace and quiet of the great outdoors. Their eyes are hungry for the scenes of nature. They go very fast in their boats. They stir the river like a spoon in a cup of coffee. They play their radios loud enough to hear above the noise of their motors. They look neither left nor right. They don't slow down for - or maybe even see - an old man in a rowboat raising his lines...I watch and I wonder and I think. I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free. The Economy does not take people's freedom by force, which would be against its principles, for it is very humane. It buys their freedom, pays for it, and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom.","author":"Wendell Berry","tags":["economy","freedom","irony","modernity","rest","restlessness","slavery"],"id":767,"author_id":"Wendell+Berry"},{"text":"The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.","author":"Meindert DeJong","tags":["longing","restlessness","trains"],"id":42549,"author_id":"Meindert+DeJong"},{"text":"Do not quarrel or restlessly seek for more knowledge, until you have given proper honor to what you already know.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["honor","knowing","knowledge","restlessness","seeking"],"id":43276,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It's very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest.","author":"Robert M. Pirsig","tags":["advice","boredom","cure-for-boredom","restlessness","sleep"],"id":80964,"author_id":"Robert+M.+Pirsig"},{"text":"...And the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["hesse","intellect","restlessness","siddhartha","soul"],"id":102037,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["dreams","hesse","restlessness","siddhartha","soul"],"id":113575,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"On building homes for fallen angels:When I was small - I sought a home,a place to go and rest my bones.Then founded something, of my own,I lived among the restless stones.If seeking leads you back to evil,what good is that, I asked a weevil.He said a home is what you make,it can't be real, if it is fake...And if you wait instead of seek,will you find love, or something bleak?I know (myself) for I have found,a beauty, hidden – in a sound.Waiting is boring.And so is exploring.A smile is sometimes all it takes.And then your whole world simply breaks.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["beautiful","beauty","bleak","bleakness","bones","boredom","boring","breaking","children","discovering","discovery","entirety","exploration","exploring","fake","family","finding","foundation","founding","hidden","hiding","home","knowledge","knowledge-of-self","little","living","love","music","nothing","ownership","place","real","reality","resting","restless","restlessness","seeking","self-knowledge","simple","simply","something","sometimes","sound","sounds","taking","waiting","wholeness"],"id":129866,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them grow.","author":"George R.R. Martin","tags":["patience","restlessness","rush"],"id":146521,"author_id":"George+R.R.+Martin"},{"text":"I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.","author":"Ursula K. Le Guin","tags":["adventure","restlessness","wanderlust"],"id":146959,"author_id":"Ursula+K.+Le+Guin"},{"text":"In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.","author":"Carson McCullers","tags":["brooding","enlightenment","expression","face","faces","life","loneliness","loner","peace","pensive","restlessness","silence","sorrow","thought","wandering","wisdom","wise-man"],"id":147173,"author_id":"Carson+McCullers"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":40,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}