Quotes About Stillness

tiptoe to the water's edge. They show their raiments.

Peter has learned the difficult animal skill of doing nothing. He's learned to unshackle himself of the race of time and contemplate time itself. [..] It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.

On occasion we say to ourselves, panting, 'Gosh, life is racing by.' But that's not it at all, it's the contrary: life is still. It is we who are racing by.

As far as he can tell, that's what Odo spends most of his time doing: being in time, like one sits by the river, watching the water go by. It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.

Manusia yang tak mau gelisah, sesungguhnya dia telah mati

The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void.

An effective method of meditation leads us to an experience of profound stillness, an inner silence that defies description. It is an emptiness that is full with peace, creativity and happiness. It is the natural condition of our mind beyond the processes of our thinking.

I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another.

I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another. Don't look for me!

I was completely unreachable, for the first time in years. It gave me an unexpected but not unpleasant sense of stillness, of being outside of time: it reminded me somehow of childhood.

It looked so quiet and peaceful around. But the stillness was the sleep of swords.

There was already something dead about him. He didn't rear back in his knees any longer. He squatted over his ankles when he walked. That stillness at the back of his neck. His prosperous-looking belly…sagged like a load suspended from his loins.

Just g'wan back home and set down on yo' royal diasticutis and say nothin'.

But stillness was the sleep of swords.

I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

There is nothing so dumb as a tree in full leaf.

Huizen werden tot het Stille Volk gerekend. Muren hebben oren, maar geen tong. Huizen, bomen en doden zwijgen als het graf.

Stop for a Moment , Close Your Eyes and Breathe ... Hovsep Kazezian - www.Hkazezian.com

Hey, do you know what happens to a liar when he dies? He lies still, Jack!

In the stillness of quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

Beiden schenen wij het gevoel te hebben de laatste bewoners te zijn van een uit haar voegen gerukte wereld waarover de tijd was stilgevallen.

I stayed where I was and watched. The man and the corridor. He didn't make any other noise, and the corridor didn't do anything that corridors don't normally do.

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.