Silence And Peace Quotes

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  The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind

  Caroline Myss

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Healing

  Twitter post from Feb 05, 2014

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• You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  God, Silence, Meditation

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• Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Teacher, Inspiration, Knowing

  Deepak Chopra (1993). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Harmony

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• A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Music, Happy Life

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• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Silence is better than unmeaning words.

  Pythagoras

  Inspirational, Thought Provoking, Silence

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• Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.

  Max Ehrmann

  Peace, Silence, Haste

  Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”

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• Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Patience, Wisdom

  1902 The Story of My Life.

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• Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

  Deepak Chopra

  Wisdom, Teacher, Loneliness

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• Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

  John Cage

  Sound And Music, Silence, Trying

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.22, Wesleyan University Press

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• Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Moving, Silence

  Rajneesh Osho (2003). “The World Beyond Time”, p.60, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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• "Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty."

  Oscar Romero

  Peace, Fear, Ubuntu

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• There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Spiritual, Health

  "Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Messenger of Love" by Lennie Kronisch, Yoga Journal, Issue 11, pp. 18-20, November - December 1976.

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• To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Asking Questions, Silence, Mind

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• Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

  Oscar Romero

  Peace, Generosity, Duty

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• When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

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• There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

  John Cage

  Life, Music, Time

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.22, Wesleyan University Press

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• Peace is not the product of terror or fear.

  Oscar Romero

  Peace, Terror, Dynamism

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• From politics it was an easy step to silence.

  Jane Austen

  Silence, Political, Politics

  'Northanger Abbey' (1818) ch. 14

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• Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.

  Jeremiah

  Wise, Silence, Intellectual

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• The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth.

  Peter of Alcantara

  Silence, Soul, Enjoy

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• Creativity has two possibilities. One is that it arises out of your silence, love, understanding, your clarity of vision, your intimate friendliness with existence - then creativity is healthy. But if it does not arise out of meditation, out of silence and peace and understanding and love, then there is a danger. It may be arising out of your confused mind. It may be arising out of your insanity.

  Rajneesh

  Confused, Creativity, Two

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• To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Silence, Unity

  Thomas Merton (2009). “A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life, The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3: 1952-1960”, p.47, Harper Collins

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• Mind can only desire, and each desire is going to be frustrated. Instead of bringing more meditation, it will bring you more frustration. Instead of bringing you more love, it will bring to you more anger. Instead of silence and peace, it will bring more traffic of thoughts.

  Rajneesh

  Frustration, Silence, Meditation

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