Quotes About Meditation

If people are suffering, then they must look within themselves. ... Happiness is not something ready-made [Buddha] can give you. It comes from your own actions.

We need a reason to speak, but none to keep silent.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

I was never less alone than when by myself.,

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

In solitude, when we are least alone.

I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd, - "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper - Solitude is sweet.

The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.

I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass.

In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

A great city, a great solitude.

When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.

And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labour of thought.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.