“Activity conquers cold, but stillness conquers heat”
Lao Tzu
“Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy and stillness, this deathly constriction and loneliness and unrelatedness, this waste and empty hell of lovelenessness and despair, such as I had now t”
Hermann Hesse
“In peace there's nothing so becomes a manAs modest stillness and humility;But when the blast of war blows in our ears,Then imitate the action of the tiger:Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide,Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spiritTo his full height!”
William Shakespeare
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.”
Chuang Tzu
“With Crosby, Stills, and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young... we're very strong individuals, and we want our lives to be led the way we want them to.”
Graham Nash
“One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be mere rushing on.”
D.H. Lawrence
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