Quotes About Stillness

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.

You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.

It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.

Sometimes the answers are not there until we stand still and listen. But they are there and they are usually surrounded by love. You are too.

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

It is amazing how much your brain races when you literally have nothing to do.

Cuántos silencios existían? ¿El de un bosque, el del mar en un día plácido, el de un bebé dormido? ¿El de la desesperación final?

la muerte acaba siempre por imponer su silencio en los que la contemplan.

stilling—very still—breathing into this oxygen which also pockets my looking hard, just that, takes it in, also my thinking which I try to seal off, my humanity, I was not a mistake is what my humanity thinks, I cannot go somewhere else than this body…

It was a hilltop town in the south in summer. It was before I knew about knowing. My mind ran everywhere and was completely still at the center. And that did not feel uncomfortable. A bird sang, it added itself to the shadow under the archway. I think from this distance that I was happy. I think from this distance. I sat. It was before I knew walking. Only my soul walked everywhere without weight.

Silence had blown its empty wind over Manila and everything seemed to sleep in the arms of nothingness.

Tal vez el estar muriendo sea un rumor que puede no oírse, pero el morir es un silencio que tiene que ser escuchado.

Have you ever felt time slow so much that that it almost appears to stop? Ever listened to a clock when the next tick seems to take forever to follow the last tock?

All is calm, all is bright.

Be still and quiet, tune in with the Infinite Intelligence, and continue in right thought, right feeling, and right action, and you will arrive at your goal.

On Sundays the world is as bright and empty as a balloon.

Never yet has such furious movement brought in its train such slowness in the passage of time. Everything is spinning, only time stands still. The rotation goes on forever. And when the wheel finally stops spinning, the riders in their relief forget that they have paid money to enjoy themselves, and only had the fright of their lives. They feel glad to have gotten out alive.

instead of the constant plashing of the waterfall, the water was still

Keep still." Jaypaw felt the hardness beneath Graystripe's flank. "You've just given yourself gas.

Her father and Brackenfur both looked worried. The two apprentices lay still

She sat still and silent, gazing unblinkingly at Mothermouth.

I didn't try to run. I didn't even move. I just stood there and let justice take its course.