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Quotes About Stillness

He searched the ground floor and found only shadow and stillness, which should've reassured him but didn't. It was the wrong kind of stillness, the shocked stillness that follows the bang of a cherry bomb. His eardrums throbbed from the pressure of all that quiet, a dreadful silence.
~ Joe Hill
He searched the ground floor and found only shadow and stillness, which should've reassured him but didn't. It was the wrong kind of stillness, the shocked stillness that follows the bang of a cherry bomb.
~ Joe Hill
One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.
~ Joel Edgerton
Our greatest gift is the thunder of Silence.
~ Joel Goldsmith
stay in peace." When
~ Joel Osteen
Stay in the Place of Rest Maybe
~ Joel Osteen
Erik was always amazed how exhausting it was to sit on your ass and not move.
~ Joel Shepherd
Her plea was the music that the soul could hear at sunrise, if the mind was still enough to hear it.
~ Joey W. Hill
My greatest wealth is the deep stillness in which I strive and grow and win what the world cannot take from me with fire or sword.
~ Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe
Tobe, Welt, und springe; ich steh' hier und singe in gar sichrer Ruh'.
~ Johann Sebastian Bach
On all the peaks lies peace.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
O'er all the hilltopsIs quiet now,In all the treetopsHearest thouHardly a breath;The birds are asleep in the trees:Wait; soon like theseThou too shalt rest.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks.
~ Katharine Tynan
What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
~ Mary Oliver
Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.
~ Mary Ruefle
What I like doing best is Nothing.
~ A. A. Milne
Being still at least once a day will enhance your life.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Sometimes I've even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.
~ Deb Caletti
My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.
~ Gautama Buddha
Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.
~ Christina Rossetti
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.
~ Elizabeth Janeway
Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.
~ Frederick Lenz
There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.
~ Sarah Dessen
Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being -- being quiet, being grateful.
~ Bess Myerson