Quotes About Stillness

When the wind stops, the stillness suspends them between two eternities, entirely in the caress of here and now.

There's a whole lot of comfort in saying nothing.

You can travel everywhere, just by standing still.

Quédate quieto. Espera. Algo en el solitario superviviente sabe que se puede resistir más allá de la irrefutable ley del Ahora.

Las cosas pueden viajar a cualquier sitio; para ello, no hay más que permanecer inmóvil.

He's never really thought about the many miles a tree travels, in smallest cursive increments, each hour of every day. Forever in motion, these stationary things.

We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb "rest," as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.

Old men ought to be explorers Here and there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For another union, a deeper communion —T. S. ELIOT, "EAST COKER

Be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing. —T.S. ELIOT, "East Coker" from the Four Quartets

Perfect silence. This in response to Sully's key being turned in the ignition of the pickup.

heard his cry but it was like an imagined sound, for it was mingled with the pulse of his life, and it seemed the rain was red blood gushing upon me from the sky, covering my body and mixing with the mud beneath us and around us until we were drowning in a great, thick lake of blood. My mind was empty except for that one thought of red rain steadily falling and then, finally, even that thought grew dim and there was stillness all around me. I

He sat. The white cat still contemplated him with large, moist eyes.

The sole purpose of all the other work was just to buy time to be still for a moment and write.

Stars, she whispered. I can see the stars again, my lady. A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight. Stars, Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she did not move again.

The stillest hour of the night had come, the hour before dawn, when the world seems to hold its breath. The moon hung low, and had turned from silver to copper in the sleeping sky.

Botticelli sat

There is a love for the real, an affection for the true, in all of Dutch art. A church interior with its stillness. A hand with its gesture. A landscape with its distances. A cloud with its motion.

This is another day, O Lord... If I am to stand up, help me to stand bravely. If I am to sit still, help me to sit quietly. If I am to lie low, help me to do it patiently. And if I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly.

That's what war was. A great motion and then a great stillness in which the winner crouches and the loser lies facing the sky.

That's what war was. A great motion and then a great stillness in which the winner crouches and the loser lies facing the sky.

Silence is just as likely to indicate the most profound ideas forming, the deepest energies being summoned.

Kaikki neljä pysyivät jonkin aikaa liikkumatta, kun myrsky yltyi, ja salaman leimahdus valaisi heidän suojansa. Pitkän miehen ja vanhan naisen merkillisen jähmeä asento tuntui loitsivan Axlin ja Beatricen, ja molemmat olivat vaiti aloillaan. Oli melkein kuin he olisivat itse törmänneet kuvaan, astuneet sen sisään ja muuttuneet itsekin maalatuiksi hahmoiksi.

Just stay still, if you stay still it can't find you. That's sharks, you idiot. Sharks and dinosaurs. This isn't Jurassic Park.

The next step in meditation is not just to focus, but to stop thought completely without having to focus; you gain a tremendous amount of personal power.