Quotes About Stilness

#1. Inspired action is when you take action with no mind. Pure silence.

Matthew Donnelly

#2. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to. Flight.

Gene Wolfe

#3. If I am right, Thy grace impart
Still in the right to stay;
If I am wrong, O, teach my heart
To find that better way!

Alexander Pope

#4. The very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

Joseph J. Ellis

#5. Rachel was a girl who depended on small, recurrent rituals - that was one of the things he'd come to know about her, and his very ability to identify so specific a trait made him proud of his own capacity for tenderness.

Richard Yates

#6. Just because marriage didn't work for us doesn't mean we don't believe in the institution. Just because our own marital track records are mixed doesn't mean our hearts don't lift at the sight of our daughters' Tiffany-blue wedding invitations.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#7. The man fed every carnal fantasy she possessed. He sat her lustful appetites before an array of the finest of delicacies, ordered them to feast, then commanded, "Don't swallow.

Patricia A. Knight

#8. Make the depths of the stillness as your teacher, and then it will make you the teacher of the depths!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.

Alexandre Dumas

#10. 'I cannot face you if you think I look at you and see anything less than the man you are. I am not settling for you, I am reaching for you, and there is a difference, and you are that man.'

Amy Lane

#11. I was becoming convinced that the world was a colorful, variegated grab bag full of bastards. But

Pat Conroy

#12. I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

Walter Wager