Quotes About Stillness

Be silent, hide away and let your thoughts and longings rise and set in the deep places of your heart. Let dreams move silently as stars, in wonder more than you can tell. Let them fulfill you—and be still.

I could do with a bit of piece and quiet.

I let out a long sigh. In

It felt eerily quiet, and even though it was only just past one, it felt like it was four in the morning and the whole world had gone to sleep.

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

It's hard to do nothing because you tend to do something and then you have to drop everything.

The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.

It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There's a whole commotion going on inside us.

Gravity is the root of lightness; stillness the ruler of movement." (Mueller, op. cit., p. 69.)

At?l, hareketsiz duran yaÅŸam ölmeye eÄŸilimlidir; eÄŸer at?ll?k eksiksizse, ölüm gerçekleÅŸmiÅŸ demektir.

Die Stadt war weit, fern, nur noch ein sanftes Summen am Horizont, die Kette der Stunden war losgehakt, und die Zeit war so lautlos, als stände sie still.

We sit as if in our graves waiting only to be closed in.

Paris is a city where time is best to spend by doing nothing

Õhtu teeb maailma ilusamaks. Mitte jooksukraavides, küll aga rahuajal.

Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself, skill in action. It can be experienced whenever there is total, uninhibited, unconflicted participation in the moment you are in—when you are wholeheartedly present with whatever you are doing.

Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.

Never mistake motion for action.

The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want him for long He maketh me to lie down in green pastures and there are no green pastures He leadeth me beside still waters and still waters run deep

He was going to sleep a little while. He lay still and death was not there. It must have gone around another street. It went in pairs, on bicycles, and moved absolutely silently on the pavements.

I looked around me and absorbed the peace of a sprawling bustling city stopped dead, socked in snow. My puppy jumped and barked, twisting and sliding. I was instantly wildly grateful just to be awake and witness all this stillness. I don't ever want to die, I thought, I want to live forever.

the hollow rumble of wings, the movement of darkness, and the stillness of light.

Don't want to do a thing, Ran, do we, from now and on till evermore.

As soon as a man stopped wandering and stood still an looked around him, he found a god in that place.

You must learn to wait properly... By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind you so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension