Quotes About Stillness

He just sits there. I want to be like that. Able to just sit all quiet and pull life toward me, one forehead at a time. His name is supposedly Lyle.

Forever Overhead No time is passing outside you at all. It is amazing. The late ballet below is slow motion, the overbroad movements of mimes in blue jelly. If you wanted you could really stay here forever, vibrating inside so fast you float motionless in time, like a bee over something sweet.

Quiero ser así. Capaz de sentarme inmóvil y empujar la vida hacia mí, una frente cada vez.

We await, I predict, the hero of non-action, the catatonic hero, the one beyond calm, divorced from all stimulus, carried here and there across sets by burly extras whose blood sings with retrograde amines.

The rest, is silence.

To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

To give yourself away keep yourself still, And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill.

Concealed from the public eye, snug within his coffin, Mr Bird looked as he had looked in life. Despite his size and the flowing bulk of his flesh, he had borne always, since a child, the grey pallor of death; and he had a way of seeming as still as a statue.

Quit being so busy and learn quiet, to quit talking so much and learn silence.

The silence following great words of Peace.62

It felt right not to talk. It felt good just to be. Sometimes there was no need to fill the air with words.

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Un día me dijeron que la felicidad consiste en no querer moverse de donde una está.

Another favorite position of his was sitting with his back to me, his rear half resting on the floor of the boat and his front half on the bench, his face buried into the stern, paws right next to his head, looking as if we were playing hide-and-seek and he were the one counting. In this position he tended to lie very still, with only the occasional twitching of his ears to indicate that he is not necessarily sleeping.

While Odo has mastered the simple human trick of making porridge, Peter has learned the difficult animal skill of doing nothing. He's learned to unshackle himself from the race of time and contemplate time itself. As far as he can tell, that's what Odo spends most of his time doing: being in time, like one sits by a river, watching the water go by. It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.

except for the breathing

Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.

To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

How still it was up here but why was it not ever peaceful?

My grandad used to tell me that if you want to get up-close and personal with birds, you must sit and remain still for at least twenty minutes.

On Sundays she got up early in order to have more time to do nothing.

Sometimes she didn't think. Sometimes a person sat there being. She didn't have to do. Being was already doing. You could be slowly or a bit fast.