"Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle."

Stillness, Patience, Understanding, Thought

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"Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle."

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"Your greatest strength is in your ability to remain still."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Stillness, Inner Peace

"Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes, He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is."

Annie Dillard, American Author

Stillness, Silence, Existence, Being, Presence

"The more a person knows the less they talk. I shall cease speaking and endeavor to instill a large band of silence inside myself in order to forge a deeper and closer relationship with all of nature. Only when I attain absolute quietude shall I understand the supreme virtue of humanity and understand the meaning of both life and death. Only when I achieve absolute stillness shall I come to a perfect realization of the meaning of existence innate in all things."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Stillness, Silence, Nature, Understanding

"It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Stillness, Dawn, Peace, Nature, Life

"Meaning is often found embedded in the silent moments of our lives when we can hear and see what matters most, the things audible and visible only to the spirit."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

Stillness, Silence, Spirit, Meaning, Life

"When your mind is still and undisturbed by stimulation, the true nature naturally shines out and you can directly see what you really are."

Ilchi Lee, South Korean Author

Stillness, Nature, Mind, Truth

"Meditation becomes easier if you drop all your ambitions and desires."

Girdhar Joshi, Indian Author

Stillness, Meditation, Desire, Peace, Focus

"Enjoy the contented silence."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

Stillness, Silence, Contentment, Peace, Joy

"There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you."

Diana Gabaldon, American Author

Stillness, Moment, Beauty, Truth

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"Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Startwith what they know. Build with what they have. But with the bestleaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people willsay 'We have done this ourselves."

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"The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people."

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"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."

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"Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream."

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"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses."

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"It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins."

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"Your greatest strength is in your ability to remain still."

"Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes, He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return."

"The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is."

"Meaning is often found embedded in the silent moments of our lives when we can hear and see what matters most, the things audible and visible only to the spirit."

"When your mind is still and undisturbed by stimulation, the true nature naturally shines out and you can directly see what you really are."

"Meditation becomes easier if you drop all your ambitions and desires."

"Enjoy the contented silence."

"There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you."

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"He who is contented is rich."

"He who has not faith in others shall find no faith in them."

"Be the chief but never the lord."

"If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind."

"Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Startwith what they know. Build with what they have. But with the bestleaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people willsay 'We have done this ourselves."

"The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people."

"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."

"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses."

"It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins."