Quotes About Quiet

Dawn on New Year's Day is as close as any inhabited place gets to absolute stillness.

He only wanted to have as much peace and quiet in his life as possible. He simply didn't realize that pursuing peace and quiet was a full-time, nerve-rattling job.

We are in need of a second education in order to accustom our eyes to the noble reserve and the quiet grandeur of the classics.

Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's to become of the Empire if governesses have lost their touch for scaring the wits out of their girls?

What was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?

He also entered a bookstore called "Books 'n' Stuff," that stocked more videos and greeting cards than books. Furthermore, its supermarket lighting and background music discouraged browsing. Qwilleran had his own ideas about the correct ambiance for a bookstore: dim, quiet, and slightly dusty.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

And so it began, not with thunderous noise, or drama, or a cataclysmic collapse, but with . . . silence.

I've made my mistakes and taken my licks and I still think a quiet life is overrated.

There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.

If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium. At present people in search of pleasure naturally tend to congregate in large herds and to make a noise; in future their natural tendency will be to seek solitude and quiet. The proper study of mankind is books.

He would have liked to speak; but there were no words. Not even in Shakespeare.

He liked women; love was an indispensable enjoyment. But nobody was worth involving oneself in tiresome complications for, nothing was worh messing up one's life for. With the women who hadn't been sensible and had taken love too seriously, John Bidlake had been ruthlessly cruel. It was the battle of 'All for love' against 'anything for his quiet life.' John Bidlake always won. Fighting for his quiet life, he drew the line at no sort of frightfulness.

And what birds! widewinged and beautiful, all those serene thoughts and faiths and emotions that only visit minds that have humbled themselves to quiet.