Quotes About Quiet

Every man must have a peaceful place to contemplate. If you do not have such a place, you must find one!

Man sometimes needs only stillness, just stillness!

What have you got if you do not have a peaceful corner where you can refresh yourself?

You can't think well while people are around you! Best thoughts visit us in the twilight of solitude!

Run into peace.

The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.

Idly, Wick wondered if he should feel insulted. Then he decided there really wasn't any room for considering an insult with all the fear running rampant in his mind. Maybe he was quiet on the outside, but he knew he was running around screaming inside his thoughts.

Nothing is more useful than silence.

canoe is the most graceful, the most sensitive, the most inexplicable contrivance of man. With its paddle you may dip up stars along quiet shores or steal into the very harbor of dreams. I

You can't hear a whisper if you're constantly shouting.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.

Apologize for what?" she replied in a deceptively quiet voice. "For your particular perspective on the truth? It is a habit of human beings to crystallize around themselves a lens through which they may safely view the experiences of life.

He liked the fog, the world quietened down and closed in. Glossy turned to matt, every stridency was muted, substance leached out of the brute matter all around. Things became notions, the brash present a vague memory. By some parallel process of slippage, his innumerable childhood memories of foggy days morphed into other memories. The fog of illness, real or feigned, of fevers and flu and febrility.

for more than ninety-nine percent of human existence, we all lived like Onwas, in small bands of nomadic hunter-gatherers. Though the groups may have been tight-knit and communal, nearly everyone, anthropologists conjecture, spent significant parts of their lives surrounded by quiet, either alone or with a few others, foraging for edible plants and stalking prey in the wild. This is who we truly are.

My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob.

Listening is not about simply hearing physical words or sounds, they are often a nuisance; listening is a surrender to the moment with a quiet mind and an open heart. We are almost never in this place. We live in the illusionary world of subconscious thoughts with a full and busy mind. And sadly, a heart that is all too often closed to self/Self. Honour yourself by learning to truly listen. Go to Contents

He begins by quoting Thoreau: 'The mass of men lead quiet lives of desperation.

Das ist das Höchste. Ruhig auf dem Rücken liegen und dabei keine Schlafgeräusche entstehen lassen. Das stört mich, wenn einer Schlafgeräusche von sich gibt. Wenn einer in meiner Nähe schnarcht oder stöhnt oder lallt, dann hau ich dem eine runter. Mehrmals pro Nacht. Am nächsten Tag frage ich besorgt, ob er gut geschlafen habe.

The need to be vocal can't be overemphasized: "We need to change the concept of the library as restricted, quiet space--we bustle, we rock, we engage, but so many people in the community do not know this.

A few words before we attack," Surplus said. "I know that I can trust you all to be terrifying..." "Yasss!" his mountain horse said. "Be quiet, Buttercup. However, please remember to only knock down things that are not difficult to repair – porches are fine; pottery is not.

Only by practicing stillness aggressively, pushing all the clamor and busyness of life aside, can a man truly experience God. In the still and quiet, discernment is learned so that in the heart of the battle it can be practiced. If a man can't practice it when things are still, there is no way he will be able to do so when the arrows are flying.

What kind of idiot bird sings in the middle of the night?... I wish it'd shut up and let me sleep! - Pirra

With a rasping cough, the vampire shakes its head. "It was you who called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of your cannons shook us from our quiet graves...