Stillness Quotes

383 Stillness quotes by 227 unique authors

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency. — Rem Koolhaas
I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I… — John Lydon
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. — Mark Rothko
What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays… — David Ogden Stiers
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation,… — Eckhart Tolle
Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are… — Eckhart Tolle
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. — Gore Vidal
Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration… — Barbara Kingsolver
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness. — Meister Eckhart
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
With stillness comes the benediction of Peace. — Eckhart Tolle
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest. — Bruce Lee
He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of… — William Shakespeare
Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer… — Susanna Kaysen
Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God,… — Amy Carmichael
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. — Eckhart Tolle
Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through... — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that… — Paul Auster
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets… — Sri Aurobindo
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. — William Shakespeare
There's a terrible stillness. I notice a small tear in the wallpaper above her shoulder. I notice finger marks grimed on the light switch. Somewhere… — Jenny Downham
Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first… — Marianne Wiggins

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