Quotes About Stillness

Don't move, and breathe only if you have to. (Caleb)

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.

Leave life alone. Let it be.

In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.

Look for the things in your life that bring you stillness and happiness, not the things that make you crazy. Look inside yourself and look for that perfect stillness.

Have lots of plants in your house. Nature and plants understand something about stillness and silence. As you interact with the green world, you will find a peace will enter your life.

And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.

Observe the life like a wise tree by the side of a calm lake! Do not move; just sit and observe! Observe the Sun, observe the storms; observe the wisdom, observe the stupidities!

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down

Build pockets of stillness into your life.

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

feeling for a pulse. There was none.

Welcome folded arms, fixed eyes, a sigh that piercing mortifies; A look that's fastened to the ground, a tongue chained up without a sound.

Even the great anxiety of writing can be stilled for the eight minutes it takes to eat a pineapple popsicle.

harmonoia n. an itchy sense of dread when life feels just a hint too peaceful—when everyone seems to get along suspiciously well, with an eerie stillness that makes you want to brace for the inevitable collapse, or burn it down yourself. From harmony + paranoia. Pronounced "hahr

idlewild adj. feeling grateful to be stranded in a place where you can't do much of anything—sitting for hours at an airport gate, the sleeper car of a train, or the backseat of a van on a long road trip—which temporarily alleviates the burden of being able to do anything at any time and

A fat pink cloud hangs over the hillUnfolding like a rose.If you hold my hand and sit real stillYou can hear the grass as it grows.

Time should have stopped with the clocks but instead it moved in a glazed dream of tiredness without their ticking insistence.

If you would keep your soulFrom spotted sight or sound,Live like the velvet mole;Go burrow underground.And there hold intercourseWith roots of trees and stones,With rivers at their source,And disembodied bones.

Everyone is silent.