“The mind cannot really rest or be still: it is either busy, or non-existent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life. — Maxine Kumin 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
The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness. — Gustav Landauer Copy Share Image
“Stillness seems to have the effect of easing the senses, until it starts to dull them.” — Youngme Moon 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
Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Hopefully there will come a time when I have no words, when I can honor and hold that kind of stillness that… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It is in that inner peace and stillness that things begin to happen, and it was in that peace and stillness that… — Eileen Caddy Copy Share Image
It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing. — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
“I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included. — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless;… — Jean Klein Copy Share Image
I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
“Waiting on God is hard when you are dispirited by illness. But part of waiting on God, learning to be passive in… — Michael Mayne Copy Share Image
In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in… — John Banville Copy Share Image
The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
It wasn't awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn't want pain, she wouldn't want to be… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it’s only in the ecstasy of unrepressed movement that we may enter the stillness of our authentic selves. In such sacred… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
“I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also… — Abraham Joshua Heschel 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
The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The air was still; when a breath awoke, it but touched his cheek like the down of a feather, and the stillness… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Christ is already in that place of peace, which is all in all. He is on the right hand of God. He… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
“Embracing pain strengthens the will; embracing crying heals the soul; embracing melancholy deepens insight and perception; embracing boredom fosters creativity and imagination;… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
“Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness makes a year feel like a decade, whereas mindlessness does the opposite.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
