We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot really rest or be still: it is either busy, or non-existent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“When you're in the zone of your purpose with passion...time stands still.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Spend time in silence. Take time to get to know yourself and your genius in stillness.” — Jewel Copy Share Image
The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
“Don't measure your success through the money that you have accumulated. Instead, through the stillness of your mind.” — Srinivart Copy Share Image
“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat any time and be yourself. —Hermann Hesse” — Marti Olsen Laney Copy Share Image
The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Arthur lay in startled stillness on the acceleration couch. He wasn't certain whether he had just got space-sickness or religion.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“Only in stillness the wind Only from ice the flame. When all were Nameless, the wise will tell It was only by… — Jess E. Owen Copy Share Image
As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“A recently deceased American Zen master and navy veteran, John Daido Loori, used to say that those who think Buddhism is just… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
“Today, find a point of stillness: brief, but precious slight, but full small, but luminously real. Find a point stillness in the… — Na'ama Yehuda Copy Share Image
He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger… he is pure air and fire; and the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Therefore: In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“I could give you peace. Imagine closing your eyes with no worries, no pain, no fears, no regrets, no appetites, and no… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something,… — Ana Lily Amirpour Copy Share Image
Well, you know, the mind is nothing. The mind is only a bunch of thoughts. Thoughts about the past and the future,… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, you need the ocean light, and colors you’ve never seen before painted through an evening sky. Sometimes you need your God… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“[When I meditate,] there in the deep, I could sense something circulating inside me. It was a Knowing. I can know things… — Glennon Doyle Copy Share Image
I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep,… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
The U theory suggests that the central integrating thought ... will emerge from building three integrated capacities: a new capacity for observing… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Your quiet era isn’t a retreat — it’s a return. A remembering. A rebuilding.” — Roche Uccello Copy Share Image
Soundwaves. It’s the difference between one stillness and another stillness. — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness. — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a different way of escaping the dark stillness of their mind.” — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“The mind is a sweetheart, when it is wondering; and a bitch, when it is wandering.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image