Victor Hugo Quotes

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

I love silence.

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

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

'Silence,' I think, was the hardest, because it's so different from everything we've done before and required very delicate handling and trying to find the right meditative pace.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.

When you're surrounded by majestic Norwegian nature, it's very easy to start thinking about stuff you don't have time to in everyday life.

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.

Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.

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

She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.

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

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard. Everyone has a listening point somewhere. It does not have to be in the north or close to the wilderness, but someplace of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with awe.

Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and taking hints from every noble insect that favours us with a visit - sap will be given us for meat and dew for drink.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

Take time to be quiet.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.