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Definition of Stillness
Stillness
The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.

Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.

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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T. S. Eliot

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Deepak Chopra

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous Huxley

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.
Morgan Freeman

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
Morgan Freeman

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
Morgan Freeman

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
Jim Elliot

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
Mark Rothko



Stillness Translations
stillness in German is Stille
stillness in Hungarian is nyugalom, csend
stillness in Latin is silentium
stillness in Spanish is quietud
stillness in Swedish is stillhet


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