Quotes About Quietude

May my silences become more accurate.

Anything for a quiet life; as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Hay ocasiones cuando Dios quiere que estemos sentados en su presencia en silencio. No quiere que seamos nosotros los que siempre hablemos. Como lo expresa Isaías 30:15: «En quietud y en confianza será vuestra fortaleza».

The true source of abundance is the silent mind, for within its fertile quietude rests all potential, all power, and all promise.

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.

I want to stay away from controversies.

I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.

The less I speak, the more I meditate.

Acting sober is an art," he explained. "The trick is to say very little and be very still.

Night fell long and cool through the woods about him and a spectral quietude set in. As if something were about that crickets and nightbirds held in dread.

Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way, I told myself. I bet she's had a very hard life.

An inability to remain quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

My idea of a good time is sitting quietly with my own thoughts and not making eye contact with anyone.

Even the wind had ceased, and there seemed to be nothing in the world but the darkness and himself. In that gigantic blackness, in that unseen quietude and vacancy, the mind could cease to be personal to itself. It could be overwhelmed and merged in space, so that consciousness would be transferred or dissipated, and one might sleep standing; for the mind fears loneliness more than all else, and will escape to the moon rather than be driven inwards on its own being.

Nobody knows how to just shut the fuck up and look out the window anymore.

A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.

as if Laurie had recited the Apostles' Creed in perfect Latin, and resumed tidying up the pews, humming along with the choir, occasionally making brief, quiet remarks to no one in particular, in a tone that was both friendly and respectful. She was just thinking

At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

some people were born quiet, preferring to listen.

He stopped to look around. Everything was silent.

Calm in quietude is not real calm. When you can be calm in the midst of activity, this is the true state of nature. Happiness in comfort is not real happiness. When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind.

And while from inside we would hear coughs and stirrings, there was never a rustle in the listeners out the door.

O, the sorrow of us all, to wander the earth in a shell. And looking to the heavens, we lay to rest in hell. The suffering of the innocent in the midst of Jacob's well. How the miles fled between us, and that distance is still great. Though on the same shore we now sit, in temporal quietude to wait. The moon is our bright witness; it will lead us to the gate.

Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.