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Blaise Pascal2 quotes
All human misfortune comes from this one thing: man's being unable to sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Alan Watts1 quote
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. — Alan Watts · 1957Anthony Bourdain1 quote
Don't be afraid to just sit and watch. — Anthony Bourdain · 2018Franz Kafka1 quote
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. — Franz Kafka · 1931Fred Rogers1 quote
How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning? — Fred Rogers · 2003Georg Trakl1 quote
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. — Georg Trakl · 1912Hermann Hesse1 quote
Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve. — Hermann Hesse · 1927Lao Tzu1 quote
Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear? — Lao Tzu · 400 BCT.S. Eliot1 quote
At the still point, there the dance is. — T.S. Eliot · 1936