Stillness Quotes
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.
There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.
If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.
Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.
Nothing increases happiness like quiet time. The truth is, the only moments that make you laugh or happy are seconds of stillness.
Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.
I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.
For a moment, they all stood staring at each other. Then Holly shattered the stillness by throwing herself at Angela. "God, Angie!" she exclaimed, arms locked around her neck. "What Happened?
Rin slept inside the oak’s thought. Its own memories of weather and growth continued to hum, and like a pond, its stillness reflected back herself.
I guess I also see meditation as part of healthy living. It definitely is important for me to find some mental stillness.
Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind.
Hopefully there will come a time when I have no words, when I can honor and hold that kind of stillness that I so need, crave, and desire in the natural world.
When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.
We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.
In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.
I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the midst of so much doing.
Life’s most precious moments are not all loud or uproarious. Silence and stillness has its own virtues.
Sometimes you just have to turn off the lights, sit in the dark, and see what happens inside of you.
Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.
The sweetest melody that playson starry nights and wintry days, most soothing to my listening earsand calming to beleaguering fears, I call a symphony on air―the song of sweet, still silence rare.
Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of the mind can offer sanctuary.
The girl was a gypsy before an illness took control of her legs, now she watches in awe the world pass by whilst stillness teaches her about inner strength.
There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet.
Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.
Our perception is our window to the world, and we need to wipe the dust off of our window often so we can continue to see through it clearly.
Don’t ever stop believing in your own personal transformation. It is still happening even on the days you may not realize it or feel like it.
There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.
I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.
Be calm...calm as a calm lagoon, then you will look beautiful as a beautiful calm lagoon crowned by the Moon and sheltered by the brilliance of the stars reclaiming your royalty of regal life...
I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.
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.
Education will teach you ephemeral things. God will teach you wonders.
Within yourself is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.
When a turbulent mind and wounded heart surrenders to grace, breathing is easy.
A visit to the family farm in spring means witnessing growth and challenge and beauty and stillness all rolled into one.