Quotes About Quiet

Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks.

Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?""Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet.

I need time every day to think.

Solitude – the space between thinking" from Cinderella In Focus.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Silence guides the mind...

Mind can comprehend things only at its particular level of vibration. As the mind become calm and quiet it can see and understand deeper things.

I tend to be drawn to people who are similar. Very independent. And the ones who aren't, it doesn't work. It doesn't last. I'm drawn to quiet people – certainly I am now.

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even thought they countain most of our lives.

Let the peace of this place surround you as you sit or kneel quietly. Let the hurry and worry of your life fall away. You are God's child. He loves you and cares for you, and is here with you now and always. Speak to Him thoughtfully, give yourself time for Him to bring things to mind.

Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.

How can children bombarded from birth by noise, frenetic schedules, and the helter-skelter caretaking of a fast-paced adult world learn to analyze, reflect, ponder? How can they use quiet inner conversation to build personal realities, sharpen and extend their visual reasoning?

No car was in the driveway.

I'm not a hermit.  I'm just an introvert, which means I like people, but I don't find parties exciting.  They tire me out—.

Here's the thing about being shy: just because you're not bowling people over with your giant personality, they might think there's not a lot going on inside. But they'd be wrong. Quiet types have rich inner worlds - we just don't let everyone see them.

Here in the country, on a little farm in southern Georgia, I am building a quiet life of resistance. I am a radical peasant, and every day I take out my little hammer, and I keep building.

I don't have much to say to that. I mean, I have a lot to say, so I don't say anything.

Walk into a library anywhere in the world and you'll notice the same thing: It's quiet and calm. Everyone knows how to behave in a library. In fact, few things transcend cultures like library behavior. It's a place where people go to read, think, study, focus, and work. And the hushed, respectful environment reflects that. Isn't that what an office should be?

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

In private life she was not in the least what her calumniators would have wished her to be. She was very quiet, had a great natural dignity, and was extremely intelligent. She was also exceedingly sensitive.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that's much quieter.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind