Quiet Quotes

If you work hard and you play well, all those critics quiet themselves pretty quickly.

I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.

Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.

I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is". I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.

A meek spirit gives no trouble willingly to any: a quiet spirit bears all wrongs without being troubled.

I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

All Quiet on the Western Front.

The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

It's really hard for me to remember all of the places that I've been but I can remember all of the delicious meals that I've ever eaten. I love traveling by way or stomach...and finding quiet time.

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

When you are quiet, you see everything with love.

You ask why I make my home n the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom, The water flows.

God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

I speak on things I'd like to speak on. Anything else, I'll keep quiet.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really quiet to really loud.

A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb.

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

In some quiet way, the expression and feelings of gratitude have a wonderful cleansing or healing nature. Gratitude brings warmth to the giver and the receiver alike.

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.

I think we're in a quiet time right now. luxury can be in the fit.

For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear.

Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.

The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.

I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.

If you're a leader, it's important to set aside time to quiet yourself and listen for God's direction.

But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.