Top 100 Quotes About Stillness
#1. Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.
Martha Beck
#2. Let your mind and soul be at ease. Don't grasp and grab for the magic and miracles. When you reside in that place of stillness, the joy, miracles, and magic you're seeking will find you.
Melody Beattie
#3. Obedience is a knife that cuts the cord of bondage.
Silence is a hammer that shatters the walls of speech.
Stillness is strength; pain a soft bed.
Put down your basin; emptiness is the only vessel.
Brian Staveley
#4. It may be, of course, above all, that what suddenly broke into this gives the previous time a charm of stillness - that hush in which something gathers or crouches. The change was actually like the spring of a beast.
Henry James
#5. I feel as if they are somewhere between movement and stillness, and thus in possession of a certain energy.
Claire Morgan
#6. There's a chill in the air that feels like winter, or at least the start of it. This is my least-favorite time of year because everything dies or goes to sleep, and there's too much death and stillness, and the sky turns gray for so long, you think it will never be blue again.
Jennifer Niven
#8. Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.
Eileen Caddy
#9. It was a mystery ... whether the solemn, silent man possessed more than human wisdom and stillness of spirit, or whether his mental powers had deserted him.
Hermann Hesse
#10. All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana.
Frederick Lenz
#11. Finally the pieces started to make sense and I began to feel a pensive awareness of circumstances other than my own; a knowing that brings with it a kind is stillness that I didn't quite understand but accepted it for its own.
Christopher Scotton
#12. Death is stillness. And stillness does not belong among the living. A
Steven Erikson
#13. When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you.
Eckhart Tolle
#14. I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time.
Edward Kennedy
#15. The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most important dimension of human existence: the sacred, the stillness, the formless, the divine.
Eckhart Tolle
#16. From a place of stillness, openness, forgiveness and acceptance you can renew your commitment to any eating plan you like.
Martha Beck
#17. 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
#18. Knowing peace is havcing a stillness in your heart while in the middle of chaos
Judy Azar LeBlanc
#19. The word metastasis, used to describe the migration of cancer from one site to another, is a curious mix of meta and stasis - "beyond stillness" in Latin - an
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#20. 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
#21. The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
Anne Enright
#22. Green thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.
Mirabel Osler
#23. The most powerful forces in the universe are infinite. Love, imagination, intuition, stillness. Then why should we define our soul?
Matthew Donnelly
#24. When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.
Kristin Armstrong
#25. Moyers: {TS] Eliot speaks about the still point of the turning world, where motion and stasis are together, the hub where the movement of time and the stillness of eternity are together.
Joseph Campbell
#26. I arise to day ... In the name of Silence / Womb of the Word, / In the name of Stillness / Home of Belonging, / In the name of the Solitude / of the Soul and the Earth
John O'Donohue
#27. There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.
George R R Martin
#28. On a waste place strewn with bricks in the outskirts of a town twilight was falling. A star or two appeared over the smoke, and distant windows lit mysterious lights. The stillness deepened and the loneliness. Then all the outcast things that are silent by day found voices.
Lord Dunsany
#29. An imagined landscape, then, is a landscape not of being but of becoming: a composition not of objects and surfaces but of movements and stillness, not there to be surveyed but cast in the current of time.
Tim Ingold
#30. Find stillness
and you will hear the sound of the universe.
Step out of time and into the realm where creativity is possible.
Melissa Rae
#31. Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.
Lao-Tzu
#32. 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
#33. The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural ... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.
Wassily Kandinsky
#35. 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
#36. In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.
Jean Klein
#37. 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
#38. The tears dissolve the last block of ice in my throat. I feel the frozen stillness melt down through the inside of me, dripping shards of ice that vanish in a puddle of sunlight on the stained floor. Words float up
Me: "Let me tell you about it.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#39. When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect.
Eckhart Tolle
#40. 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
#41. But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#42. Gently, I reach forward and close her eyes with my fingertips, hoping it will make her seem merely asleep. But the stillness of sleep is nothing at all like the stillness of death.
Rae Carson
#43. Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within.
Eckhart Tolle
#44. And in the stillness before dawn, on the brink of a war that could tear us apart, our auras danced and twined in the darkness, coiling around each other until they finally merged, becoming one.
Julie Kagawa
#45. Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.
Ellis Peters
#46. The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.
Russell Simmons
#47. Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.
Eckhart Tolle
#48. O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#49. Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.
Laozi
#50. The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding.
Laozi
#51. When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.
Eckhart Tolle
#52. My father's face, when he said that, dissolved into a stillness, a sad expression, sadder than human feeling.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#53. The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
Willa Cather
#54. When we feel like there isn't enough time in the day for us to get everything done, when we wish for more time," wrote sociologist Christine Carter, "we don't actually need more time. We need more stillness.
Arianna Huffington
#55. 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
#56. Was when Beverly screamed, a high-pitched sound in the stillness. The vaulted dome overhead picked it up, and the echoes were like the laughter of banshees,
Stephen King
#57. All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness
Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you.
All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health,
Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you ...
Rumi
#58. In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.
Veronica Roth
#59. Within you is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. - Hermann Hesse
Steve Martin
#60. Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.
Anne D. LeClaire
#61. What will really release the kundalini is creating a stillness in your life. This stillness will come about through deep caring and introspection. It will come about slowly and then quickly - it builds momentum.
Frederick Lenz
#62. You were the thing
worth photographing,
the stillness
that begged
for a matte finish
and far off stare.
Tyler Knott Gregson
#63. You made my world stand still, and in that stillness, there was a freedom I never felt before.
Sarah McLachlan
#64. But there are many ways to be powerful. There is power in stillness. There is power in watching, waiting, saying the right thing at the right time to the right person. There is power in being a woman---oh yes, power in these bodies you gaze upon with derision.
Kiersten White
#65. That's what war was. A great motion and then a great stillness in which the winner crouches and the loser lies facing the sky.
Kathy Hepinstall
#66. There was a silence on the tors that belonged to another age; an age that is past and vanished as though it had never been, an age when man did not exist, but pagan footsteps trod upon the hills. And there was a stillness in the air, and a stranger, older peace, that was not the peace of God.
Daphne Du Maurier
#68. The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.
Gustav Landauer
#69. Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.
Elsa Barker
#70. She walked off to Hurst; and got a good priest there-- one whom she had known at Antwerp-- to write for her. But no answer came. It was like crying into the awful stillness of night.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#71. As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I felt my eardrums would burst with it.
Sylvia Plath
#72. Through our awareness, we can open the inheritance of our qualities or talents, and behind that, reside in the stillness of being, present in the sanctity of universal love.
Georgi Y. Johnson
#73. He works at the kennel with Nana," Ben piped up. "And I think him and Mom are dating."
At that, a stillness fell over a throng of admirers, punctuated by a few uncomfortable coughs.
Nicholas Sparks
#74. Have you ever gazed up into the infinity of space on a clear night, awestruck by the absolute stillness and inconceivable vastness of
Eckhart Tolle
#75. 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
#76. And when we come to search for God, Let us first be robed in night, Put on the mind of morning To feel the rush of light Spread slowly inside The color and stillness Of a found world.
John O'Donohue
#77. We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.
Deepak Chopra
#78. Dwell in stillness and to observe without reacting and without judging.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#79. The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.
Laozi
#80. The two Samanas recognized him simply by the perfection of his peace, by the stillness of his being in which there was no seeking, no desire, no imitation, no attempts at being seen
only light and peace.
Hermann Hesse
#82. There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.
J.D. Salinger
#83. There is a love for the real, an affection for the true, in all of Dutch art. A church interior with its stillness. A hand with its gesture. A landscape with its distances. A cloud with its motion.
Katharine Weber
#84. I chose the light amidst the lurking darkness. I chose calmness and stillness among a crowd bathing in chaos. I chose happiness over screaming negativity around and I chose to be ME over the temptation of being like somebody else.
Elizabeth E. Castillo
#85. Obscure as muddied water. But, with stillness, muddy waters clear. Can you also act while remaining still?
Lao-Tzu
#86. Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness ...
T. S. Eliot
#87. So I wonder what it is this need to tell.
To animate somehow the deathly stillness of the profoundest beauty. Breathe life in the telling.
Peter Heller
#88. Make the depths of the stillness as your teacher, and then it will make you the teacher of the depths!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
Ramana Maharshi
#90. 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 you back more than you give.
David Ogden Stiers
#91. Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.
Kathleen McDonald
#92. Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.
Morgan Freeman
#93. To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also the sound of existence. You need to feel that which lies beyond your awareness field, and that which is within it.
Frederick Lenz
#94. Many tribal peoples consider illness to be one of the most reliable sources of revelation. Many of the practices that traditional religions impose upon seekers-abstinence, isolation, stillness-are practices that illness imposes upon us, so it is in a sense a cocoon that allows revelation to unfold.
Kat Duff
#95. Once I knew only darkness and stillness ... my life was without past or future ... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller
#96. You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is stillness that looks like the world. That connection, that collision, that interfacing, is one of the most astonishing things we can experience.
Joel Meyerowitz
#97. Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.
Eckhart Tolle
#98. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.
Eckhart Tolle
#100. It must take the most incredible self-control, that stillness, that passivity; it must be exhausting.
Paula Hawkins
