I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry? — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“There has to be a Quietness…There is a Strength in Quietness.” — 1/18/2009 David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Modesty is great, and quietness is nice, but sometimes it's much more fun to be decadent. — Robin Standefer Copy Share Image
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with… — Euripides Copy Share Image
What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find… — John Selden Copy Share Image
The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, and I shall… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
“Beyond the boundaries of herself, her parents and the enclosing garden walls, were open fields and other waiting places she still knew… — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree... Of course I have to give up, but… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I have a thousand images of you in an hour; all different and all coming back to the same. I think of… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
True inward quietness is not that which may be produced by shutting out all outward causes of distraction -- a process which,… — Caroline Emelia Stephen Copy Share Image
“Ideas love silence. When you are silent, ideas come to knock on the door of your heart.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
A more happy mind leads to quietness and clarity. And that clarity helps you have a greater capacity to do more and… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
“When I say I love the silence, I'm not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“It was curious how quiet that last evening was; as if I had already left, and we were just two ghosts talking… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“There's quiet because you don't need to say anything, and then there's quiet because you don't want to say something. --Marisol” — Francisco X. Stork Copy Share Image
“Quietude As music is not in the notes, but in the silence between the notes, the real joy of life is not… — Amar Ochani Copy Share Image
Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet inspirations to a… — Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
“My quietness is a consequence of my deeply entrenched nihilism. I don’t believe there is any real value in my or anyone… — Emily R. Austin Copy Share Image
“Embarrassed by her admission and doing her best to ignore the heat searing her cheeks, she dragged her eyes to his and… — Beverly Jenkins Copy Share Image
“A jet may be perfect for breaking the speed of sound, but a brick is designed to break the speed of silence.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
