Stillness Quotes (page 198)

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• great
• believe
• greatness

There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again. W. H. Auden

• forest
• wellness
• path

Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods. It's the deepest, wildest part of the forest; the grove where the fairies still dance and obscene old vipers snooze in the boughs. Everybody but the most dried up and dysfunctional is drawn to the grove and enchanted by its mysteries, but then they just can't wait to call in the chain saws and bulldozers and replace it with a family-style restaurant or a new S and L. That's the payoff, I guess. Safety. Security. Certainty. ... Tom Robbins

• army
• recruitment
• recruiting

DUMBLEDORE'S ARMY, STILL RECRUITING. J. K. Rowling

• mind
• mindfulness
• different

Minds differ still more than faces. Voltaire

• english
• spanish
• french

But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I was going to be one of those Americans who traversed Italy with my forehead knit in concentration, divining wordsw from their Latin roots and answering by wedging French cognates into Italian pronunciations spliced onto a standard Spanish verb conjugation. Barbara Kingsolver

• may
• couple
• bible

The bible may be the greatest story every told, but the most popular story is about a couple fornicating that stops for one reason or another while it is still novel. Kurt Vonnegut

• crying
• die
• born

What then remains, but that we still should cry. Not to be born, or being born, to die? Francis Bacon

• thankful
• thanks
• attention

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession. Ian Fleming

• world
• saying
• uses

They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it. Johnny Depp

• bed
• feeling
• wellness

I wish I didn't have to think about you. You wanted to impress me; well, I'm not impressed, I'm disgusted...You wanted to make damn good and sure I'd never be able to turn over in bed again without feeling that body beside me, not there but tangible, like a leg that's been cut off. Gone but the place still hurts. Margaret Atwood

• mobs
• assembling
• had

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. James Madison

• true
• purpose
• running

Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens. Derrick Jensen

• loneliness
• depression
• time

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does. Henry Rollins

• men
• dog
• crying

Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding in wistful discomfort. The magic that gleams an instant between Argos and Odysseus is both the recognition of diversity and the need for affection across the illusions of form. It is nature's cry to homeless, far-wandering, insatiable man: "Do not forget your brethren, nor the green wood from which you sprang. To do so is to invite disaster. Loren Eiseley

• work
• life
• she

Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have done it. What had he known, but the long, marital embrace with his wife. Curious, that this was what his life amounted to! At any rate, it was something, it was eternal. He would say so to anybody, and be proud of it. He lay with his wife in his arms, and she was still his fulfillment, just the same as ever. And that was the be-all and the end-all. Yes, and he was proud of it. David Herbert Lawrence