Emily Dickinson Quotes

I didn't walk over and talk to him, though, not then. If I needed the time for a tree branch to become just a tree branch again and the wind to become just the wind, then a boy, most of all, needed some time to be only a boy.

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

Long walks force a certain meditative awareness. You're not moving so fast that you miss the world's details passing by - in fact, you can stop to inspect something that might catch your eye.

When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

Because I live in London I'm always at busy places like airports and gigs. When you're up in the mountains the air's so clean and there's nature and the awesomeness of the slopes. It makes me reflective and think about the bigger picture.

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.

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

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.

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

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.

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

She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

Take time to be quiet.

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

You see more sitting still than chasing after.

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.

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.