Henry David Thoreau Quotes

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that it is quiet. Its quietness makes it seem perfect. The ripples are like the slates of a blind of a shutter through which we see imperfectly what is perfect. Though that other world can be seen only momentarily, it looks everlasting. As the ripples become more agitated, the window darkens and the other world is hidden.the surface of the river is like a living soul, which is easy to disturb, is often disturbed, but, growing calm, shows what it was, is, and will be.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

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

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

If you just literally stand still for a while, listen and think, things will eventually get sorted out.

A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think.

I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that's when you're able to think and learn.

Vipassana taught me how to maintain equanimity in all situations of life.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

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

Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.

I firmly believe that if we all just took a little time - like 10 or 15 minutes a day - to do nothing but sit calmly with our thoughts, this world would be a much better place.

You can create space just by standing still.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

Never underestimate the power of sitting quietly.

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.

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

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

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.