Quietness Quotes

84 quotes by 73 authors

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply. — Truman Capote
Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In… — Charles Stanley
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst,… — Charles Spurgeon
This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in… — Rumi
First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of… — Laurence Sterne
All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of softness, relaxedness, calmness… — Rajneesh
We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of… — Holbrook Jackson
No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long; you're just sad, that's all. The mean reds are horrible.… — Audrey Hepburn
I think maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A great tree is both moved and unmoved,… — Rachel Held Evans
The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that… — Wendell Berry
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you… — Elbert Hubbard
When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's… — Adyashanti
I've discovered it is not sufficient simply to try to take time for quietness but that I must, with all diligence, make time. Whatever keeps… — Tommy Barnett
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance… — Ieyasu Tokugawa
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness… — Sigmund Freud
By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever. — Ieyasu Tokugawa
A modern hospital is like Grand Central Stationâ€”all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are… — Herbert M. Shelton
I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust… — Elizabeth I

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