Bill Copeland Quotes

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.

Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

You can create space just by standing still.

It's good to reflect on life and take a step back and sit and relax and do something else.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

Take time to be quiet.

You see more sitting still than chasing after.

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

I aspire only to silence.

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

I love silence.

I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.