Quotes About Stillness

If we could hear the squirrel's heartbeat, the sound of the grass growing, we should die of that roar

Mountains terrify me - they just sit about; they are so proud.

I try to sit still for about 15 minutes each morning without making lists or running in overdrive.

I've always had a resting expression that either makes me look deep in thought or as though I'm about to fight you. I've lost count of the number of directors asking me what the problem is when all I'm doing is sitting still and being.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

When you become thoughtless, then you can see, feel Reality.

I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.

On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.

There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods.

Every tree wore a thick cloak of white, every stump and boulder a jaunty snowy cap, and there was that perfect, immense stillness that you get nowhere else but in a big woods after a heavy snowfall.

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

All of human unhappiness comes from one single thing: not knowing how to remain at rest in a room.

We must sit by these rivers, not under or in them, but above, not standing upright, but sitting down, so that we remain humble by sitting, and safe by remaining above.

Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.

VÅ¡etky problémy ?udstva pramenia z neschopnosti ?loveka sedieÃ…Â¥ v miestnosti ticho a sám.

all humanity's problems stem from an inability to sit in a quiet room alone." Johnson, Fenton. At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life (p. 229). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.

Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos dans une chambre.

Todas las miserias de la humanidad se deben a una sola cosa: a que somos incapaces de estar sentados solos y en silencio en una habitación

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone

J'ay souvent dit, que tout le malheur des hommes vient de ne sçavoir pas se tenir en repos dans une chambre.

Ä°nsanoÄŸlunun tüm mutsuzluÄŸu tek ba??na sessizce bir odada oturamamaktan kaynaklan?r.

we went outside and the night was really still and the stars were like an explosion across the sky.

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