Quotes About Stillness

I had forgotten how good it feels to run." He brushed the hair bac from his face and grinned at her. "But to sit quietly is a good thing too.

A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.

looking round him wildly. The boys were calm and said nothing.

really being able to relax means you can be comfortable doing nothing at all.

when you sit in a forest everything appears still. But it isn't really. If you listen and watch closely, life is happening everywhere around you...In silence, life keeps raging on.

I desire to lie in the dust,

I want to lie in the dust,

During several centuries Clochemerle, far from the cities and trade routes, had lived in stillness and isolation. But now, at last, the clamour of the great world was crossing the invisible barrier, bringing doubts, temptations, and discontents.

He sat on his shelf as still as a stone, and half his mind was somewhere else. There, fires broke out; there were cries of terror both human and feline; he was responsible and not responsible. It was long ago but not so far away.

Godly saints will always tell you that the inward witness of the Spirit is most clearly heard when you are quiet before him in prayer. It is then that his still, small voice can be most clearly heard. It is not then drowned out by the noisiness and busyness of our lives.

You will find, my dear brother, that still waters run deep.

A tranquil mind is not a little gift.

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

silent. This was

It may be time for America to learn the forgotten rewards of sitting down and shutting up.

Just focusing on my breath, my steady heartbeat, the stillness of a tree, or the intricacy of a leaf can center me in the wholeness of all things.

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

You cannot clear muddied water with your hand. — Who is there that can make muddy water clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will become clear of itself. Who is there that can secure a state of absolute repose? But keep calm and let time go on, and the state of repose will gradually arrest.

Who is there that can make muddy water clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will become clear of itself.

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.

It is strange how interiors reflect their dark turbulent past, how in their stillness bygone history tries to be reenacted, how the same situations repeat themselves with infinite variations, turned upside down and inside out by fruitless dialectic of wallpapers and hangings.

perché solo quando ti siedi, ti fermi e osservi può nascere la creatività»,

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.