Quiet Quotes

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

When you open your heart with a quiet mind love rushes in.

Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?

Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is an ascetic.

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

Movement is tranquility.

Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done, except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

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

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

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore.

Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let him say something good or keep quiet.

Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.

I was injured because everyone around me was observing neutrality and keeping silent. After all, they saw that I wasn't ready to perform that element. But they kept quiet.

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.

[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

On quiet nights, when I'm alone, I like to run our wedding video backwards, just to watch myself walk out of the church a free man.

Perhaps you've only grown up when you can bear not being understood.

A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide.

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

In a quiet place, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and go inward. Place your attention on your heart, in the center of your chest. Sit quietly and easily let your attention remain there.

Learn to follow the quiet voice within that speaks in feelings rather than words; follow what you 'hear' inside, rather than what others may be telling you to do.

Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.

I love very much the night after every fashion show when I have all those invitations to parties and I stay quiet at home by myself.

By being peaceful, quiet, and receptive, you pattern yourself in the image of God, and you regain the power of your Source.

Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power.