Stillness Quotes
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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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 as a technique is still really captivating to me.
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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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Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.
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Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
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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.
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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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The greatest revelation is stillness.
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In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.
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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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Stillness is the ruler of haste.
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Stillness overcomes heat.
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Stillness is easy to maintain.
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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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True power is stillness within motion.
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Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?
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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.
