Quiet Quotes

Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.

The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings."--(psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the state of being he calls "flow")

Don't assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while.

One way of keeping your dreams alive is to keep it to yourself. It can save you and protect your dreams to a greater extent.

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things

Those who are arrogant and controlling are determined to cling to spoken words but peaceful hearts are unafraid to go deeper beneath the surface.

They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them.

Never underestimate wisdom in silence, proof isn't always a mouthful of words.

There's nothing worthless about being wordless, it will only save your mouth from talking gibberish.

Be the one whose Lord is Jesus and who takes His words as a final authority without any thought of controversy. True believers follow Jehovah, not only for what He does, but specially for who He is.

Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.

If you need more power, you must pray more.

Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed.

The more you concentration on God, the longer your conversation with him lasts and the holier his consacration will be on you. Let your communication with him be controlled by your committment.

It's a sweet thing to sit quietly in the early-morning darkness and talk to God for a while. It's amazing what you gain from the conversation.

Think you can and you can do it.Your thoughts are your life.

I was quite possibly in the midst of losing my mind. I needed to get away from people until I figured out if I actually was losing my mind.

As a lie can be buried, the truth will always bloom.

Quiet Days, they look at you, and you will become one with the holy river - nature forms a symbiotic relationship - absolute infinity, truly found, in harmonious caressing arms.

Love is louder than anger, even in silence.

One of the greatest lessons we can learn in life is how to keep mute when the boiling ring of anger is dropped within us

That’s how it felt – that the loss of him had a life of its own. I lived with it as I could have lived with him. Some nights it was quiet and sometimes it pounded on my door.

I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.

I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.

Never fear what people will say... Never think you can't do it because it was never done before! You can be the source of change that is suspending for quite a long period now! You too can fly!

Tell few about your dreams and show the rest in the way you make a life with it.

In the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. And when you leave, don't forget why you came...

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

Summer quiet thoughts on summer quiet noons.

With her mouth closed, her mind screamed.

Silence can bring us into alignment with our thoughts and feelings and help us to hear the quiet spiritual voice of our intuition.

True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism.

Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.

The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...Dead silence.Literally dead.

There are some people that should stay quiet, because they understand. As there are those that should stay quiet, because they don't understand. Some things are better left unsaid or voiced.

..i spill intothe kind of silenceonly Khalil Gibran would understand.

Not by discussions nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ shall we draw men unto Him.

The sweetest melody that playson starry nights and wintry days, most soothing to my listening earsand calming to beleaguering fears, I call a symphony on air―the song of sweet, still silence rare.

When it’s quiet in my head like this, that’s when the voice doesn’t need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When it’s quiet like this, that’s when I truly hate myself.

Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger

Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.

There is nothing more harrowing than a deadly hush with the feel of a great noise around it

I never speak in silence.

Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.

Life’s most precious moments are not all loud or uproarious. Silence and stillness has its own virtues.

Sometimes, there's no one around to tell you to be quiet... to be very, very quiet. Sometimes you need to be quiet when you're all alone.

These woods are where silence has come to lick its wounds.

The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.

Silent is an anagram of listen.