Stillness Quotes

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance. (Morgan Freeman)
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall. View quote
Carson McCullers
The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness. View quote
Chris Evans
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. View quote
Ted Kennedy
Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we had done a brave thing... Or a man could feel that we had made this city in the desert and that it was a fake thing and that our lives were empty lives, and that we were the contemporaries of the jack rabbits. View quote
William Saroyan
We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency. View quote
Rem Koolhaas
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. View quote
Ramana Maharshi
He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied. View quote
David Foster Wallace
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 feelings, kindred with the skies. View quote
John Henry Newman
Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! And if upon its stillness fall The visions of a busy brain, We'll have our pleasure o'er again, To warm the heart, to charm the sight, Gay dreams to all! good night, good night. (Joanna Baillie)
I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet. View quote
Gillian Anderson
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the "I Am” that is deeper than name and form. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
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. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the heroic age of capitalist enterprise, imbued with self-righteous beliefs about hard work, thrift, and public morals. Such an ideal might still have been mentioned in public fifty years ago; in our era of risk-insured semimonopolies and advertised vices it would be met with a ghastly stillness. View quote
Paul Goodman
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. View quote
Anne Enright
Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it. View quote
Paul Brunton
Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole armor of love - and yet feel, feel very deeply. Let tears flow, washing away impurities until you feel clean within and clean without. Become like an empty vessel ready to be filled with life's nectar. View quote
Eileen Caddy
It is in that inner peace and stillness that things begin to happen, and it was in that peace and stillness that I began to hear God's voice. View quote
Eileen Caddy
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)
Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years. View quote
Louis L'Amour
For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars. View quote
Joanne Harris
Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have. View quote
Ann Brashares
I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness. View quote
Dodie Smith