Quotes About Stillness

He doubted that the drivers hurtling down the interstate even noticed the herd, the coyote, or the dogfight in the clouds. Like so many vistas in the state, Joe thought, it looked like a whole lot of nothing at first. But if one stopped and observed, really sat still for a few minutes and observed, there was a lot going on. The high-steppe desert was alive and complex. •

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All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone," Blaise Pascal famously wrote in the late seventeenth century.

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

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?

Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.

Theoretically, I learned in physics that the universe is expanding at a rate of, like, forty-five miles a second, but it sure as shit doesn't feel that way when you're standing still.

No battles within himself. No worries. No death. Just…peace.

After dark, well, you stayed put.

Do not add to the cross in your life by becoming so busy that you have no time to sit quietly before God. Do not resist what God brings into your life. Be willing to suffer if that is what is needed. Overactivity and stubbornness will only increase your anguish.

In all the world there was only one thing I knew about a spiritual pursuit. It was this: become quiet. Still your mind before the Lord. Do that before you do anything else.

My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do have a strong urge: to do nothing. To down tools, to stop. Except I know that if I do that I will fall into despair, and I know that it is worth doing anything in one's power to avoid depression because from there, from being depressed, it is only an imperceptible step to despair: the last refuge of the ego.

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

All quiet along the Potomac.

Rock an stane lay glisterin on aa the heichs abune. Cool an kind an whisperin it drifted gently doon, till hill an howe war rowed in it, an land an sea were gane. Aa was still an saft an silent in the smoky smir o rain.

that's what God does. He moves the wind across the water or leaves it still. He can do all that. That's God doing that and He can do it on any lake that He wants to.

Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.

In the universal stillness of nature and the calmness of the senses the immortal spirit's hidden faculty of cognition speaks an ineffable language and provides undeveloped concepts that can certainly be felt but not described.

Tranquillity is courage in repose.

I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.

This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart...

The trouble with people nowadays is they don't know how to do nothing.

David, que se disponía a correr su cortina contra el oscuro crepúsculo, se detuvo y clavó la vista en el jardín. El chico estaba de pie bajo la acacia, en la parte más cercana de la verja que separaba el jardín de Hood House del huerto. La figura estaba tan quieta y