Quotes About Stillness

All quiet along the Potomac.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

I want to live quietly.

So we sit there together the mountain and me, Li Po said, until only the mountain remains.

What had been quiet and restful was now silent and empty.

Doing nothing is more expedient than doing something.

The greatest events- they are not noisiest but our stillest hours. The world revolves, not around the inventors of new noises, but around the inventors of new values; it revolves inaudibly.

My wisdom has accumulated long like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.-

A diferencia de los hombres, los rubíes y las esmeraldas no descansan tranquilamente en su tumba.

We could all do with some silence, just sitting back in a dark theater and watching humans living and working and discovering their affinities without any words.

Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon.

At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

I need a long, cold winter.

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

Be still; quietly remember the presence of and within yourself, and you will know, without thinking, that while all around you everything changes, within you lives something unchanging.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

Being still may sound a little crazy to some, but I really encourage people to simply listen to your own breath and unclog all those thoughts running through your mind. It's important to take a step back.

Wasting time changes the nature of time. And the heart is stilled.

He placed me in a straight chair against the wall, brought me an ashtray, sat at his desk with his back to the window. He was quick in movement, very still in repose. His bald scalp and watchful eyes made him resemble a lizard waiting for a fly to expose itself.