Quotes About Stillness

Turn off the radio, TV, DVD, iPod, computer and cell phone. Then, listen.

Be courageous: be still.

Toda la música tiende al silencio.

Siederemo accanto un'altra volta, a spinger sassi col piede, e fantasie col pensiero.

With the name of Jesus, or with sincere thought on Jesus, a great power is united: it drives away passions, forbids demons, and fills the heart with heavenly stillness and joy.

Parts of him were built to be awake before dawn and yearning to be both absolutely still and moving everywhere at once.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

MEDITATE when you need stillness. Seek KNOWLEDGE when you need movement. LOVE when you want to know your true self.

Stillness is the absence of motion. There's no space for time to fly and no time for space to be. In stillness space and time are point-less.

Thinking is a brain activity. Knowing is a gut feeling. Thinking is movement. Knowing is stillness. Thinking takes time. Knowing is now.

Breathe and you dwell in the here and now.

And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, their cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of stillness, and the cold, and dark.

And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and dark.

The world slept, and it was like the sleep of death.

Al desierto no suele gustarle el movimiento. Toma como una ofensa la vida, porque vida es movimiento, y él tiende siempre a destruirlo.

What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace an egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.

Empty yourself of everything," he said. "Let your mind rest at peace. Ten thousand things rise and fall while the self watches. They grow and flourish and return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Practice your breathing and think upon this, Moirin.

In my stories, there were always things happening: in my life, nothing would ever happen.

Silencing the mind was a greater task than stilling the body.

Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power. Say unto your heart, Peace, be still!

Wake Him. Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power. Say unto your heart, "Peace, be still!

Say unto your heart, Peace, be still!

When you surrender and accept the beautiful stillness around you, when you give up all thoughts of the past, all worries and anxieties of the future, when you surround yourself with similarly positive people, when you tame the mind, when you keep healthy, there is zero chance of burnout.

Then, we were still. We did not move, because we could not. We held each other so close that we might indeed have been one body.