Stillness Quotes

Build pockets of stillness into your life.

— Maria Popova

Stillness is the altar of spirit.

— Anonymous

Stillness is the ruler of haste.

— Laozi

“Mindlessness often leads to headlessness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Stillness is your essential nature.

— Eckhart Tolle

“Stillness is calm soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

True power is stillness within motion.

— Laozi

Focus on stillness, rather than on movement

— Morihei Ueshiba

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

— Meister Eckhart

In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.

— Veronica Roth

The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.

— Sakyong Mipham

“I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.”

— Iris Murdoch

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

— Deepak Chopra

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.

— Eckhart Tolle

“Gravity is the root of lightness; stillness, the ruler of movement.”

— Lao-Tse

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

— Russell Simmons

From a place of stillness, openness, forgiveness and acceptance you can renew your commitment to any eating plan you like.

— Martha Beck

Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying…

— Pam Houston

Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures,…

— Louis L'Amour

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness…

— Mark Rothko

“Don’t ever stop believing in your own personal transformation. It is still happening even on the days you may not realize it…

— Lalah Delia

Just as the waves can subside to reveal the stillness of the ocean's depths, so too is it possible to calm the…

— Kathleen McDonald

It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.

— Wei Wu Wei

“Quiet reflection is often the mother of deep understanding. Maintain that peaceful nursery, enabling stillness to speak.”

— Tom Althouse

The realms of light exist everywhere forever. But it is up to an individual to raise their mind to a level of…

— Frederick Lenz

'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen.…

— Geraldine Brooks

Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the…

— Frederick Lenz

Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther…

— Henry David Thoreau

“One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an…

— T.F. Hodge

Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more,…

— Katrina Kenison

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if…

— Tony Kushner

I feel like the stillness of Ralph Angel - him being formerly incarcerated, being a Black man, being misunderstood in this world,…

— Kofi Siriboe

“Can you truly understand what a nation is capable of, child of the Stillness? The entirety of Old Sanze, once it finally…

— N.K. Jemisin

“In the stillness of the night I have walked in your streets, and my spirit has entered your houses, And your heart-beats…

— Kahlil Gibran

“The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes,…

— Marianne Wiggins

The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There has been evolution in my work. In the beginning I was very much busy with the physical body and the limits…

— Marina Abramovic

“There’s a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else’s work in the morning; it’s as if stillness experiences pain in…

— Jonathan Franzen

“I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people.…

— Charlotte Eriksson