John Steinbeck Quotes

It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

I have need to busy my heart with quietude.

Take time to be quiet.

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.

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.

Meditation is about getting to a place where you're approaching things in a more calm, centering place rather than allowing yourself to get caught up in it.

Never underestimate the power of sitting quietly.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

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

Rest and be thankful.