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«Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.»
«He moves nice. It's his stillness that's not right.»
Author: Marilyn Whirlwind | Keywords: stillness
«Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.»
Author: Gore Vidal | About: Literature, Writers | Keywords: be active, stillness
«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»
«For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.»
«Once I knew only darkness and stillness...my life was without past or future...but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.»
«An horrid stillness first invades the ear, / And in that stillness we the tempest fear.»
«Activity conquers cold, but stillness conquers heat»
Author: Lao Tzu (Philosopher) | Keywords: conquers, stillness
«How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank.Here will we sit, and let the sounds of musicCreep in our ears; soft stillness, and the nightBecome the touches of sweet harmony.»
«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!»

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