The Good Life Quotes

“STILLNESS is quite a skill to master in a world that is constantly on the move. It’s difficult literally to be still; only the dead truly manage it. And it’s as difficult to attain an inner stillness, the two being intimately linked. It’s a tricky concept for the Western mind too, as the good life for us is almost invariably about activity, about doing something. Flourishing implies doing, not letting be. Stillness looks like doing nothing, so how can that be part of an engaged life? And yet there’s something in stillness that is definitely worth teasing out. ‘We all have within us a centre of stillness surrounded by silence.’ Dag Hammarskjöld”
― Mark Vernon, The Good Life: 30 Steps to Perfecting the Art of Living