Quotes About Stillness

We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It's what we owe to each other. Chuy goes inside. Keller sits outside on a bench and waits. The words of the psalm come back to him— "Be still and know that I am God." There is nothing to do but be still.

Four A.M. When the city that never sleeps at least lies down and closes its eyes.

Don't move," he said, in a voice that was forty percent gravel and sixty percent inert materials.

Dominic invites us to discover how we can be still and contemplative in this frenetic global village. Otherwise, we shall not be able to offer anything nourishing to our contemporaries who are so hungry and thirsty for a word of life.

Listen to the murmur of water and you'll hear Mother Nature. Listen to the stillness beneath, and there you'll find God.

In the stillness of life, we find our higher self. Be still and God is with you. Be still, and you are never alone.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Life is a balance between rest and movement.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

The law of life is that the mind should be at rest while the body engages in action.

Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

There's a chill in the air that feels like winter, or at least the start of it. This is my least-favorite time of year because everything dies or goes to sleep, and there's too much death and stillness, and the sky turns gray for so long, you think it will never be blue again.

Not gold, not flowing. Standing still.

Penso bem melhor à noite, quando todo mundo está dormindo. Sem interrupções. Gosto da sensação de estar acordado quando ninguém está.

I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.

I thought briefly about rising, then considered the state of head and belly and decided staying close to the ground in an attitude of prayer, regardless of true intention, was a posture worth practicing.