Quotes About Stillness

It was the same thing, resting in my grave. Peace. I wasn't going anywhere and it made me happy. If only I'd brought a book, my day would have been perfect.

My teacher told me something once," I heard myself say in a quiet voice. "That the hardest lesson in life is learning when to do nothing. To learn to let go.

Calliope was never still. Even when she was seemingly motionless, he could see her mind at work, sorting ideas, seeking solutions, cataloging the space around her. To see her beauty, one had to see her in motion.

I could give you peace. Imagine closing your eyes with no worries, no pain, no fears, no regrets, no appetites, and no guilt. Only quiet and darkness and stillness and my flesh against yours.

Words created the future, exacerbated problems, raised barriers between them. But in the silence of Ford's sleep, Ford could love Dan easily; in the stillness of Ford's rest, Dan could adore him without question or fear.

Animals spend a lot of time being still so when we do they lose their logical mistrust of us.

Not just the absence of sound, but positive, warm, burnished silence.

In New Orleans they have mastered the art of the motionless. In

In the aftermath of the wind the air was dry, burning, so clear that she could see the ploughed furrows of firebreaks on distant mountains. Not even the highest palms moved. The stillness and clarity of the air seemed to rob everything of its perspective, seemed to alter all perception of depth, and Maria drove as carefully as if she were reconnoitering an atmosphere without gravity.

A somnolence so dense it seemed to inhibit breathing…

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

Learning to pray doesnt offer us a less busy life; it offers us a less busy heart.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there.

In the beginning you will fall into the gaps in between thoughts...after practicing for years, you become the gap.

Normally my mind is racing a mile a minute thinking about my next move, the future, this and that...but today I'm choosing to be still and focus on the now. This moment. Thanking God for it and thanking Him for having already gone before me to work out the next scene in my life.

Sometimes I wish time would stop; Just so I could catch up with it...

By now the only part of me now seating were my eyeballs.

Night Watch Awake for hours and staring at the ceiling Through the unsettled stillness of the night He grows possessed of the obsessive feeling That dawn has come and gone and brought no light.

Just stand still beside me and watch people, you can observe a lot instead of talking to them.

There are two types of people I have seen : those who fish and those who only disturb the water.

AÈ™tept în cel mai des?vârÈ™it calm s? ia o hot?râre.

she needed the quiet solitude found when the rest of the world was still asleep.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.