“Concealed from the public eye, snug within his coffin, Mr Bird looked as he had looked in life. Despite his size and… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
“There was every reason to feel natural joy in the world, but for the one that makes it accessible. When your spirit… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
“When I say I love the silence, I'm not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough!… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“{In the shadows where the ancestors sleep, the bird's song is young, but all else is old. Stillness surrounds me and I… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
This is the only country in the world," said Wednesday, into the stillness, "that worries about what it is." "What?" "The rest… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The source of stillness is in emptiness. All things and the changes they go through are but temporary conditions, which finally return… — Chen Kaiguo Copy Share Image
At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The stillness was so profound that he heard a little animal twittering somewhere near by under the snow. It made a small… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“It was one of Emily's earliest pleasures to ramble among the scenes of nature; nor was it in the soft and glowing… — Eliza Parsons Copy Share Image
“A still lake is transparent and reflective. Stillness mirrors the truth, for a calm lake reflects with clarity, shedding light on its… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Dying is all about letting go and letting be, as is the awareness of God. People who have traveled far along the… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being,… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“The sweetest melody that plays on starry nights and wintry days, most soothing to my listening ears and calming to beleaguering fears,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
They were creating a program on contemplative prayer called Be Still. They asked me to be a part of this project that… — Priscilla Shirer Copy Share Image
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting So much as just finding the gold. It's the great, big, broad land 'way… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
If you try to grasp Zen in movement, it goes into stillness. If you try to grasp Zen in stillness, it goes… — Linji Yixuan Copy Share Image
Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I understand that for beginners it isn't that easy to sit down, close your eyes, and settle into stillness. Your thoughts have… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I have patches of insomnia, and I'm fascinated by the otherness of the world at night. The stillness. Daytime preoccupations fall away,… — Morag Joss Copy Share Image
“Something about you makes me feel like I can tell you things like that. You’re so still. It’s like, you’ll just hear… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
With stillness comes the benediction of peace”. “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Stillness empowers. Being able to detach from all external stimulants - social media, social engagements, TV, alcohol, food, etc. - and face… — Romany Malco Copy Share Image
Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as a young girl, whenever I felt emotionally overwhelmed, I would take a walk in the… — Brenda Strong Copy Share Image
When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The place that I love most is the stillness. It's not that the stillness is lost when I talk or when I… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Once he said to her: 'You are like me; you are different from other people. You are Kamala and no one else,… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“Why are we afraid of the silence that ensues after our death? Wasn’t it the same silence we endured before birth? Isn’t… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Listen to the long stillness: New life is stirring New dreams are on the wing New hopes are being readied: Humankind is… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
