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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Faith, Cutting, Anxiety

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• Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Fear, Moving

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.31, Penguin UK

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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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  Quiet people have the loudest minds.

  Stephen Hawking

  Quiet People, Fearless, Mind

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

  Walter Bagehot

  Music, Communication, Silence

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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• The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

  Euripides

  Life, Wise, Silence

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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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• 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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• This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, 'Be more silent.' Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

  Rumi

  Running, Believe, Moving

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• When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Praying, Compulsion, Feels

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• Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Spiritual, Prayer, World

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• That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

  William C. Bryant

  Ocean, Men, Green

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Artist, Men, Vanity

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