Being Still Quotes

“Voices

Voices in my head,
Chanting, 'Kisses. Bread.
Prove yourself. Fight. Shove.
Learn. Earn. Look for love',

Drown a lesser voice,
Silent now of choice:
'Breathe in peace, and be
Still, for once, like me'.”
― Vikram Seth

“In transitions, we must learn to be still. Being still is, in part, about learning to be comfortable with ambiguity.”
― Janet Rebhan, Learn To Be Still: Select Essays on the Spiritual Life

“There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act.”
― Margaret Bottome

“In our stillness, we acknowledge God's greatness and we are at peace in our life. Stillness saturates us in the Presence of God.”
― E'yen A. Gardner, Humbly Submitting to Change - The Wilderness Experience

“When thinking is overrated
And friends are easy to make,
Check if it's too complicated
Knowing yourself somehow...
Inner peace's not hard to take,
Never lost or underestimated.
Get out of social media... NOW!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic

“He forced his mind clear of other thoughts and waited. Stillness, he had learned, did not come naturally. He practiced it. Sometimes, as he waited, he heard the Lord’s voice coursing through his spirit almost audibly. Other times he heard nothing, but he felt filled up and satisfied and understood.”
― Elizabeth Musser, Words Unspoken

“I'd been drowning, [...] I'd been flailing on the surface. But what I really needed to do to save myself was let myself sink. It struck me that this is why we say to people, "Calm down." Because beneath the noise of the pounding, swirling surf is a place where all is quiet and clear. The chaos stills in this deep.”
― Glennon Doyle, Get Untamed: The Journal

“At first he, whose acting had been so active, found the not-moving strange. His first fencing coach had always talked about stillness in motion, the inner calm within the outward movement. This was the opposite. Motion in stillness. Everything held in the voice.”
― Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons