“When you see me sitting quietly, Like a sack left on the shelf, Don’t think I need your chattering. I’m listening to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love just sitting quietly meditating. With an hour free, it depends. I love getting down on the floor and playing with… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
“Betty, who had found an old battered doll, was sitting quietly in the corner and industriously endeavoring to pick its one eye… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
“I want to do it too!” said Gazzy, sitting very, very quietly, completely motionless. “Nope,” said Nudge, shaking her head. “You stand… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own. — David Richo Copy Share Image
I hate both of my parents right now: for sitting quietly in our house, while out in the darkness my heart was… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“For Northerners, victory had confirmed they were on God’s side, fortifying their besetting smugness, and their religion resolved more and more into… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“I will admit it sometimes felt strange to me to make the confession to someone and later catch them laughing, or flirting,… — Jennifer Dubois Copy Share Image
“He passed his hands over some of the fine embossed bindings as he thought, I am a book also, words and thoughts… — Ari Berk Copy Share Image
“Hazel understood. Being grown up meant doing what grown-ups wanted you to do. it meant sacrificing your imagination for rules. It meant… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world.… — Ari Berk Copy Share Image
“I’ve been so focused on what’s horrible and unfair and terrifying about my condition that I hadn’t acknowledged what is positive about… — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
“She told me that since they date exclusively [in Judaism] with the intent to marry, the conversation is very direct right from… — Kristin Newman Copy Share Image
“When you see me sitting quietly, Like a sack left on the shelf, Don't think I need your chattering. I'm listening to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Deep listening simply means listening with compassion. Even if the other person is full of wrong perceptions, discrimination, blaming, judging, and criticizing,… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Maia opened her eyes and saw a canopy of trees and, shining through the topmost leaves, a high, white sun. She could… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
“When one has apparently made up one’s mind to spend the evening at home and has donned one’s house-jacket and sat down… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“The collar of Lars of Tassla fell away and clattered onto the tiles. katriana felt unable to breathe. Her neck, so long… — Khul Waters Copy Share Image
“Gradually the idea for a book began to take shape. It was to be a wildly ambitious and intolerant work, a kind… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
“It was Day Three, Freshman Year, and I was a little bit lost in the school library,looking for a bathroom that wasn't… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
I sit cross-legged on the rock The valleys and streams are cold and damp Sitting quietly is beautiful The cliffs are lost… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
“Deciding she couldn't really be bothered searching for the illusive closures, she was sitting quietly in bed when he returned. He halted… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“If you were sitting quietly on your couch, waiting for your girlfriend to come back inside so you could finish watching your… — Allie Brosh Copy Share Image
“Marcus and Lincoln were sitting quietly at her desk, their heads bent together at a conspiratorial angle. They didn’t hear Taylor enter… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
“Venting doesn’t extinguish the flame of anger; it feeds it. When we vent our anger, we put a lead foot on the… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This almost never happens, but what is really relaxing is just being in this house all by myself, sitting quietly and watching… — Chris O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“One of the great things about women’s magazines is that they accept that drinking water and sitting quietly will make your breasts… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“prayer is you talking to God and meditation is you sitting back quietly to listen for His response. So” — Monica Marie Jones Copy Share Image
If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“4.07 WALK OF LIFE A candle without fire cannot be burning, Man without a spiritual life cannot be living, Yet sitting quietly… — Munindra (Munnan) Misra Copy Share Image
“The real bottleneck is software. Creating software can be done only the old-fashioned way. A human -sitting quietly in a chair with… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“This afternoon I was sitting quietly with some twenty roughs when I noticed a sudden hush come over the room. I glanced… — william donaldson Copy Share Image
“This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image