Best Quietness Quotes
84 Quietness quotes by 73 unique authors
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Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness…
— Humphrey Bogart
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Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
— Helen Keller
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A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower.
— Rumi
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The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything…
— Oswald Chambers
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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
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One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions are like subtle…
— Ram Dass
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My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Well, you know, the mind is nothing. The mind is only a bunch of thoughts. Thoughts about the past and the future, that is all…
— Robert Adams
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Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree... Of course I have to give up, but by then I'm…
— Mary Oliver
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Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I think of the quietness of Julian's voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my…
— Lauren Oliver
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All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.
— Patrick Lindsay
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Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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. . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years…
— William Wordsworth
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In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy…
— Alice Hegan Rice
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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride…
— Terry Eagleton
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With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
— Laozi
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HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment…
— Alice Walker
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Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
— Henri Matisse
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The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view, all trifling, or…
— Joshua Reynolds
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God gives quietness at last.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Green calm below, blue quietness above.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness, Musing…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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