Quotes About Stillness

sitting calm within herself and waiting is often the best choice.

Stillness is a reflection of our growing openness to the unpredictable unfolding of the world as it is, a freedom from the constant effort to bend things to our liking, to make them conform to our conditioned notions of good and bad.

Antes de continuar me volví para ver si el tiempo seguía allí.

Peace, that's all I'm after.

The moon and the stars are soothing constants in an idler's life.

Lo que tengo que hacer es meterme en la cama y no moverme. Quiero concentrarme en algo que sea inofensivo en este mundo.

I don't think many people appreciate silence or realize that it is as close to music as you can get

No, really. Just quiet. Nothing louder than waves lapping or ice melting in crystal glasses.

I have been told that there are two human responses to the perception of chaos: naming and violence. . . There is, however, a third response to chaos, which I have not heard about, which is stillness. Such stillness can be passivity and dumbfoundedness; it can be paralytic fear. But it can also be art.

But the stillness was the sleep of swords.

She was not only good at housekeeping, she enjoyed it. After her parents left for work and the other children were at school or in mines, the house was quiet. The stillness and isolation both calmed and energized her. She could arrange and clean without interruption until two o'clock, when Chicken and Pie came home.

It is less distracting in the silence," she said. "Sustained silence allows one truly to listen to what is deep inside. We call it waiting in expectation.

Phryne always existed as a still, self-possessed point in a maelstrom. Usually she had created the maelstrom herself.

moments of perfect peace are rare and to be relished. We sat and savoured. The purring of the cat, th

No se puede parar el tiempo, pero para el amor a veces se detiene. Pearl S. Buck

That's what happens when you're really concentrating. Time stands still. Time flies!

The lesson is simple. Be patient, stay put.

Peace is a verb.

creating more space for stillness in order to reflect on important decisions.

Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way.

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there's a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.

Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.

As if sometimes the world really did amount to a quiet arrangement.