Top 38 Quiet Stillness Quotes
#1. Sometimes at night, when I was alone, or when I was at the pool, in the quiet stillness underwater, my mind would go to that place. To the hospital, to the people there. It was as if my heart could travel, over the miles, over the months that had passed, and I was back with her. Olivia
Cylin Busby
#2. What I did at the memorial, was listen.
To the laughter and the tears, and to the quiet stillness that followed.
Nathan Filer
#3. Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.
Steve Goodier
#4. One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments ... is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is 'dis-ease.
T.F. Hodge
#5. Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance your own pure heart. Keep quiet.
Mooji
#6. I'd missed it - the way the outback lit up in dying light. The stillness, the color. Out there, a quiet moment to yourself could feel like forever, but at the same time you were reminded that your entire life so far was barely a blink.
Vikki Wakefield
#7. He searched the ground floor and found only shadow and stillness, which should've reassured him but didn't. It was the wrong kind of stillness, the shocked stillness that follows the bang of a cherry bomb. His eardrums throbbed from the pressure of all that quiet, a dreadful silence.
Joe Hill
#8. It looked so quiet and peaceful around. But the stillness was the sleep of swords.
Zora Neale Hurston
#9. The master action to move forward, is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.
Bryant McGill
#10. I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.
Zachary Quinto
#11. When you can quiet the fluctuations of your mind and drift into stillness & silence, you can finally hear the whispers of your heart ... the whispers of god.
Davidji
#12. I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.
Edward Abbey
#13. Stillness does not mean the absence of sounds, not at all, but rather the tranquillity that allows one to perceive quiet, soft and distant sounds.
Nihad Sirees
#14. In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.
Howard Thurman
#15. In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#16. Beach houses along short sandy streets. He can feel her bare forarm brushing his, and it's strange she's being so quiet. He glances down at her and she smiles up at him as if, in his silence, he's been telling a long story and she is simply listening to it.
Andre Dubus III
#18. You wait. You wait until you forget that you're waiting, until you forget that there's anything to you beyond stillness and quiet; an ant crawls over your knee, and you don't flinch.
Rainbow Rowell
#19. God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength.
Jan L. Richardson
#20. I'm not an expert in stillness, but I have been trying to practice more peace in my life. As someone who wants it all, and tries to go after it, I once thought including quiet time in my routine was a good idea. Now I find it's more than that - it's critical to my success.
Michelle McCullough
#21. Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness.
Jeremy Taylor
#22. Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.
Huineng
#23. the room grew unnaturally quiet. Kote stood with his back to the room, a stillness in his body and a terrible silence clenched between his teeth.
Patrick Rothfuss
#24. There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages
"Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.
Beryl Markham
#25. There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
Carson McCullers
#26. It is the still, yellow kind of afternoon when one is apt to get stuck in a dream if one sits very quiet
Dodie Smith
#27. A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.
Kate Elliott
#28. When you gaze out on a quiet, peaceful meadow, next to a still pond, under a motionless blue sky, you wonder how the noisy, busy cacophony of life could have arisen from such silent, motionless beginning.
M..
#29. Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.
Jared Brock
#30. Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.
Leonard Bernstein
#31. Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.
Sherry Turkle
#32. I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.
Gillian Anderson
#33. When we are quiet and still we contract and settle.
Bryant McGill
#34. In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.
Jasper Fforde
#35. If We Sit With An Increasing Stillness Of The BodyThe Mind Gradually Stills And The Heart Is Filled With Quiet Joy
Ravi Ravindra
#36. The stillness consequent on the cessation of the rumbling and labouring of the coach, added to the stillness of the night, made it very quiet indeed. The panting of the horses communicated a tremulous motion
Anonymous
#37. I used to ski across the vast white expanses of a quiet and lonely mountaintop. In the stillness and solitude ... I pondered the mysteries of the universe, the planet, nature and of man. I'm still pondering.
Fred Kavli
#38. And it was so still. The silence of the fields seemed to enter and move familiarly through the house. The wind used the open hall. He felt that he was in a mysterious, quiet, cool danger. It was necessary to do what? ... to talk.
("Death Of A Traveling Salesman")
Eudora Welty
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