298 Quotes About Stillness

When a turbulent mind and wounded heart surrenders to grace, breathing is easy.

Time passes so fast. Make time to be still.

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.

Maybe sometimes we should just sit, and in the sitting understand that life speaks in stillness and therefore on occasion we would be wise to join it there.

The thoughts continue to tumble in my mind like clothes in a dryer.

When all is quiet, and the birds are still, you can learn so much from those browsing hills.

I bathed myself in silence, wrapped warmly in the comfort of the quiet. Yes, the stillness accepts us as we are.

People who live in the night are acquainted with all kinds of quiet. There’s quiet enough to hear the distant traffic. Quiet enough to hear your breathing. Quiet enough to hear a lover’s heartbeat. There’s please-god-don’t-let-me-die quiet, and can’t-remember-her-name quiet. Is-he-lying quiet and can’t-make-rent quiet. There’s the quiet that inspires poets, and quiet that torments the lonely.

It is the still, yellow kind of afternoon when one is apt to get stuck in a dream if one sits very quiet