Quietness Quotes

• This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.

  Rumi

  Silence, Needs, Moments

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• Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

  Helen Keller

  Mind, Resources, Inner Life

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• God will never adjust His agenda to fit ours. He will not speed up His pace to catch up with ours; we need to slow our pace in order to recover our walk with Him. God will not scream and shout over the noisy clamor; He expects us to seek quietness, where His still small voice can be heard again.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Order, Voice, Needs

  Charles R. Swindoll (2011). “The Owner's Manual for Christians: The Essential Guide for a God-Honoring Life”, p.76, Thomas Nelson

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• All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.

  Patrick Lindsay

  Waiting, Important

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• My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Nature, Heart, Inspire

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• We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.

  Margaret Wise Brown

  Song, Children, Essentials

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• In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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  Quiet people have the loudest minds.

  Stephen Hawking

  Quiet People, Fearless, Mind

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• Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.

  Andrew Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

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• In quietness the soul expands.

  Rockwell Kent

  Soul

  Rockwell Kent (2015). “Wilderness, A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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

  Walter Bagehot

  Music, Communication, Silence

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• The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

  Euripides

  Life, Wise, Silence

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• Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Christmas, Xmas, Mind

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• If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

  John Bunyan

  Peace, Feet, Mind

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• True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

  William Penn

  Easter, Being Alone, Health

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.448

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• When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.

  Adyashanti

  Ideas, Brightness, Awakening

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• All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Communication, Waiting, Attention

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• A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

  John Selden

  Kings, Men, Meat

  'Table Talk' (1689) 'Of a King'

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• But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.

  Arundhati Roy

  Grief, Night, Law

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• A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Home, Air

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.20, University of Illinois Press

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• God gives quietness at last.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Death, Giving, Lasts

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• We can all pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of Gods will. We should ask for courage, wisdom, for the quietness of soul which comes alone to them who place their lives in His hands.

  Harry S. Truman

  Hands, Soul, Praying

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• This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Understanding, Inner Peace, Mind

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• Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Perspective, Entrepreneur

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Dreams of Elsewhere”, p.162, Neil Wilson Publishing

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