Top 100 Quotes About Be Still
#1. Nietzsche, in a rare moment of deep stillness, wrote, For happiness, how little suffices for happiness! ... the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a wisk, an eye glance - little maketh up the best happiness. Be still.
Eckhart Tolle
#2. We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what ... True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.
William McNamara
#3. I am leaving, but I am living. I will not be gone from you entirely, Will. When you fight now, I will be still by you. When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the ground steady under your feet, the force that drives the sword in your hand.
Cassandra Clare
#4. I'll loosen the ropes a bit if you'll be still," Roland told her. "Suck shit out my ass, mahfah!" "I don't understand if that means yes or no.
Stephen King
#7. In every storm there is a 'Peace! Be still' Christ will speak where prayer's call invites Him.
Jack W. Hayford
#8. Take time, slow down, be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery that looks so common and so ordinary yet is wondrously present.
Edward Hays
#9. Our natural desire is to be doing something; but there are times in our lives when it is wiser to wait and just be still.
Billy Graham
#10. Be still and know that I am God.
Be still and know that I am.
Be still and know.
Be still.
Be.
St Patrick
#11. I found the ability to become still. The hardest thing for people to do is just be still. And in that stillness you create motion.
Gonjasufi
#12. Be a philosopher, but amid all your philosophy be still a man.
David Hume
#13. If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.
Feist
#14. Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
Morgan Freeman
#15. All you did was make my life hell, and the lives of others. Do you think any of this matters? In ten years, where will you be? Still judging people on the very little you know about them?
Missy Johnson
#16. Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.
Sun Tzu
#17. Try to be still inside. Learn to quiet and stop thought, and you will be able to develop your mind. Your psychic intuition will start to come about.
Frederick Lenz
#18. We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now
Eckhart Tolle
#19. If you are courageous enough to be still, you are a step closer to becoming empowered.
Romany Malco
#20. Do not cast your boat on a river of tears, cried the tearing wind. Small hands are still, be still. She knelt then lay on her side, clutching a key, accepting kindness of endless sleep.
Patti Smith
#21. 10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. 11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Anonymous
#22. Psalm 46: 10 tells us there is a kind of knowing that comes in silence and not in words-but first we must be still.
The Hebrew word translated "Be still" literally means "Let go of your grip.
Ruth Haley Barton
#24. Be still and let it wash over you. You are a stone at the bottom of a river. You are hard rock. The water wears you down, but it only makes you smoother. And the smoother and harder you are, the less the flow can affect you.
D.J. Molles
#25. Be still:
There is no longer any need of comment.
It was a lucky wind
That blew away his halo with his cares,
A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.
Thomas Merton
#26. Honor, riches, marriage-blessing
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you!
William Shakespeare
#27. You're beautiful, you're smart, you think quickly in a crisis, and you kick ass. Do you have any idea what a desirous combination that is?"
"Since I could say the same about you, yes."
He grinned. "You're bold, too? Be still my heart.
Dianne Duvall
#28. To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.
Blair Underwood
#29. Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.
Truman Capote
#30. When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.
Maggie Q
#31. They were creating a program on contemplative prayer called Be Still. They asked me to be a part of this project that was designed to help Americans see the importance of spending time before God in stillness. I knew immediately that God wanted me to be a part of the project.
Priscilla Shirer
#32. Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.
Emily Carr
#33. Be still, and know that I am God! I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world.
Anonymous
#34. I believe people are afraid to be still because we're used to being stimulated.
Michael W. Smith
#35. What I needed more than anything was a place where unfocused unhappiness could thrive, where I could be still and worry and mope; I had the blues, and when I watched my team I could unwrap them and let them breathe a little.
Nick Hornby
#36. I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope / For hope would be hope for the wrong thing
Kenneth Paul Kramer
#37. The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
Immanuel Kant
#38. Aithinne grins. "One day I pray I'll meet a woman who engages me in combat as a way to say, I love you. Be still me heart."
... "A woman, you say?"
Her laugh is short. "Did you think Kadamach was the only one whose weakness was ladies in armor? If you weren't his, I'd ask you to be mine.
Elizabeth May
#39. The best thing about New York is working late into the night. At 1 in the morning on a Saturday, to be still working, there's an immense satisfaction in being enclosed by it.
Colm Toibin
#40. Soul, love, joy and natural beauty shines first from within. Make time for quiet reflective moments. Be still and know there is more than just Botox and pink martinis for women over 40.
Machel Shull
#41. To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside.
Frederick Lenz
#42. Adieu, valour: rust, rapier: be still, drum, for your manager is in love: yea, he loveth. Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme, for I am sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit: write, pen, for I am for whole volumes in folio.
William Shakespeare
#43. Be still; quietly remember the presence of and within yourself, and you will know, without thinking, that while all around you everything changes, within you lives something unchanging.
Guy Finley
#44. You know, you're a pretty terrible person." "You're not the first to accuse me of such." "I didn't imagine I would be. Still, in spite of that, or maybe because of it, you're also a really good friend.
Drew Hayes
#45. Stay at the center of your being without allowing your attention to become distracted by sensory stimulation. Be still and let your true nature manifest and shine through.
Ilchi Lee
#46. Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.
H.W. Brands
#47. I write only because
There is a voice within me
That will not be still
Sylvia Plath
#48. Every human heart has a deep need to love - to be in love, really, with all of life. This is the kind of love that comes when the mind is still ... Be still and know that we are all God's children; then you will be in love with all.
Eknath Easwaran
#50. In transitions, we must learn to be still. Being still is, in part, about learning to be comfortable with ambiguity.
Janet Rebhan
#51. To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.
John Daido Loori
#52. Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
D.H. Lawrence
#53. His body belongs to him more than most people's do, and I ache at the thought that it might have to stop, be still. You
Ally Condie
#54. God didn't say, 'Be still and feel that I am God,' He said, 'Be still and know'.
Louie Giglio
#55. Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore ...
Edgar Allan Poe
#56. Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly to the chivalry of manhood.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#57. Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it that the performance of one particular act is alone (considered) work? To be still is to be always engaged in work. To be silent is to be always talking.
Ramana Maharshi
#58. For happiness, how little suffices for happiness! ... the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a wisk, an eye glance - little maketh up the best happiness. Be still.4
Eckhart Tolle
#59. In truth, our aliveness depends on our ability to sustain wonder:
to lengthen the moments we are truly uncovered, to be still and quiet
till all the elements of the earth and all the secrets of the oceans
stir the aspects of life waiting within us.
Mark Nepo
#60. Remind me that woman must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities; that she must be the pioneer in achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#61. In the stillness of life, we find our higher self. Be still and God is with you. Be still, and you are never alone.
Donald L. Hicks
#62. Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.
Laozi
#63. Franz Kafka wrote, "It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you." And Kafka was born a century before the Internet!
Austin Kleon
#64. I'd been running for years: there was nothing scarier, to me, than to just be still with someone. And yet, there on that dark road, going home, I was.
Sarah Dessen
#65. Mind that is fast is sick, a mind that is slow is sound, and a mind that is still is divine. This is what the Bible means when it says, Be still and know that I am God.
Eknath Easwaran
#66. You hid in my ink and guided my hand. You stained the pages with your silence as God wrote the words, "Be still." Yet, my heart's blindness could only write in loud hues of red, "I love you.
Shannon L. Alder
#67. I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.
Elizabeth I
#68. We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.
Pete Hamill
#69. Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness.
Jeff Buckley
#70. Be still," he said, voice harsh. "I might not be able to control myself if you step away.
Deborah Harkness
#71. My foes have missed their mark in this shooting at me: I am not the man: I wish that they themselves be guiltless. If all the fornicators and adulterers in England were hanged up by the neck till they be dead, John Bunyan, the object of their envy, would be still alive and well.
John Bunyan
#72. You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.
Frederick Lenz
#75. Water is what it is, and does what it does. It can overwhelm, but it's not overwhelmed. It can be still, but it is not impatient. It can be forced to change course, but it is not frustrated.
David Allen
#76. To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family and schoo1 to be still more undervalued and shunned.
Catharine Beecher
#77. You, who were made by Love, made for love
be still and know and watch love come down.
Ann Voskamp
#78. All can hear that still small voice within. Try it. Be still and know that the I AM within you is God, the Beloved. Listen ... then live by it.
Eileen Caddy
#79. Savasana - corpse pose - is the hardest pose of all. You would think, 'What could be hard about lying on the floor?' But the truth is that we, as humans, are not wired to be still and do nothing.
Jennifer Weiner
#80. All that you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within and you will surely find it.
Eileen Caddy
#81. Where there is always striving, always there is strife as well. Sometimes to be in one place is good. To be still." Leif
Susan Fanetti
#82. Be still, Be joyous, Celebrate creation, preservation and destruction; For these are the seasons of your life: Of your knowing and being.
Frederick Lenz
#84. How old does one have to be still to say tits?
Alan Bennett
#85. I just close my eyes no matter where I am, and just be still.
Tim McGraw
#86. Lord, you have appointed some to be prophets; give us ears to hear and mouths to speak. You have appointed some to sing of your goodness in the streets; make us bold to celebrate you. You have called some to be still, listen, and act; give us steadiness of mind and singularity of purpose. Amen.
Shane Claiborne
#87. It's really so depressing to be still listed in the Social Register after all the acting I've done.
Dina Merrill
#88. The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.
Henry Taylor
#89. Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
Charlotte Bronte
#90. With a teacher it is necessary to be sensitive to their directions; most of the time they won't say much. You have to be still and silent to understand.
Frederick Lenz
#91. Be still for you may hear the hauntingly familiar song of a mermaid.
Heather McLaren
#92. Take time to be still, in a hallowed place in nature, and you'll discover that you are connected to everything.
Denise Linn
#93. We must be still and still moving / Into another intensity / For a further union / ( ... ) / In my end is my beginning.
T. S. Eliot
#94. Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
Blaise Pascal
#95. You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Gandhi
#96. Muddy water will become clear if allowed to stand undisturbed, and so too will the mind become clear if it is allowed to be still.
Ming-Dao Deng
#97. Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same. When alone he had a dreadful and distressing desire to call someone, but he knew beforehand that with others present it would be still worse.
Leo Tolstoy
#98. Live in joy, in love,
even among those who hate.
Live in joy, in health,
even among the afflicted.
Live in joy, in peace,
even among the troubled.
Look within, be still.
Free from fear and attachment,
know the sweet joy of the way.
Gautama Buddha
#100. If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?"
"Do I know? [ ... ] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.
Ellis Peters
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