Stillness Quotes

383 Stillness quotes by 227 unique authors

Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal. — Laozi
Stillness is the ruler of haste. — Laozi
Stillness overcomes heat. — Laozi
Stillness is easy to maintain. — Laozi
The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding. — Laozi
Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what… — Helen Humphreys
There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself. — Guy Finley
What is true stillness? Stillness in movement. — Bruce Lee
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate… — William Shakespeare
Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and… — Jacqueline Winspear
And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life. — Maxine Kumin
I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women must be still… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner… — John Henry Newman
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and… — William Shakespeare
And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the… — Dana Gioia
When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel… — Eckhart Tolle
The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each… — Laozi
Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity — Laozi
The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I… — Peter Matthiessen
When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At the slightest breeze,… — Alberto Villoldo
There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me. — Pedro Almodovar
If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would… — Eckhart Tolle
There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It… — Mooji
It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly,… — William Baziotes
I remember that winter because it had brought the heaviest snows I had ever seen. Snow had fallen steadily all night long and in the… — Raymond Briggs

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