Stillness Quotes
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.
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Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.
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If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.
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Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.
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Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
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Stillness is the ruler of haste.
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Stillness overcomes heat.
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The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny.
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In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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The greatest revelation is stillness.
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Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.
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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.
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A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain.
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Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?
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Stillness is easy to maintain.
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When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?
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Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.
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The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
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True power is stillness within motion.
