Quotes About Stillness

Niemals ist man tätiger, als wenn man dem äußeren Anschein nach nichts tut, niemals ist man weniger allein, als wenn man in der Einsamkeit mit sich allein ist.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

With finger on her solemn lip, Night hushed the shadowy earth.

It is his vegetable ambition never to stir.

She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.

Nemoj ništa govoriti,

The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go on pretending she isn't crying.

time-out here on the edge of ourselves.

I love silence but I fear emptiness.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

There comes a time when you declare truce with pains, joys, and expectations alike – a kind of statement that I need to live like trees, like grass, like stones.

No water so still as the dead fountains of Versailles ». No swan, with swart blind look askance and gondoliering legs, so fine as the chintz china one with fawn- brown eyes and toothed gold collar on to show whose bird it was. Lodged in the Louis Fifteenth candelabrum-tree of cockscomb- tinted buttons, dahlias, sea-urchins, and everlastings, it perches on the branching foam of polished sculpture flowers - at ease and tall. The king is dead.

Be still and calm, don't fear your past but use it for our future..!

I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.

A gust of wind doesn't suddenly bang a door open. A clock doesn't chime. The phone doesn't ring. Yet in the next instant the stillness breaks as if it is crystal.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

Keep flowing even its good or bad. Stilness is ultimate result of flow, path of yoga is to keep flowing.

I could see peace instead of this.

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.

Kaz's art is a powerful example of discipline and freedom. His classical calligraphy captures the inner movement and stillness of the brush and mind.

The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.