Browsing Topic Best Being Quiet Quotes

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

Simply wait, be quiet, still. The world will freely offer itself to you.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

Are you in a library or what?!
(on the crowd being quiet)

Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.

One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It’s just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy.

Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don’t storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things–sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains. . . . Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited.

There is real comfort in being quiet.

It is a process of discovery. It’s being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.

I can’t imagine Revolution being quiet, unassuming, or bashful

Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn’t it? We can’t be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.

Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet in order to be able to hear clearly what others are saying. . . . We need to cut off the garbled static of our own preoccupations to give to people who want our quiet attention.

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters’ school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

It’s hard being quiet when one’s imagination is so loud

The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

Everybody asks me, ‘So, what are you doing now?’ Why must I be doing something? All my life I’ve been doing something. All my life I’ve been doing. For now, I’m being — being quiet, being grateful.