Stillness Quotes

You and I can turn and look
at the silent river and wait. We know
the current is there, hidden; and there
are comings and goings from miles away
that hold the stillness exactly before us.
What the river says, that is what I say. - William Stafford

Winter is the season of stillness and a time to prepare for spring, which is about movement and energy. - Lyndall Mitchell

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience. - Theodore Bikel

When I'm out there fishing, I feel like it's me against the fish, and it's a great challenge. I feel like I'm at home when I'm out in the outdoors. I feel like God has provided me an awesome way to get closer to him through the calmness and the stillness of the outdoors. - Justin Penticuff

When fear knocks on your door tell your faith to answer that there's no one there to open the door. In the midst of upheavals and chaos, allow your faith to take control and keep stillness inside you. - Kemmy Nola

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

What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan. - Hakuin

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency. - Rem Koolhaas

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. - Aldous Huxley

They are the proof of something was there and no longer is. Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling. You can turn away but when you come back they'll still be there looking at you. - Diane Arbus