Sit Quietly Quotes
52 quotes by 46 authors
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A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking…
— Madeleine Albright
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All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
— Blaise Pascal
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In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute…
— Diane Ackerman
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All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.
— Blaise Pascal
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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
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This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all.... On…
— Aldo Leopold
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As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one…
— Alan Watts
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When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying…
— Albert Einstein
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I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.
— Rand Paul
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Sit quietly and open up to spirit.
— Sharon Janis
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I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
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If you can sit quietly after difficult news, if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm, if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic…
— Jack Kornfield
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Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We…
— Barry Sanders
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The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
— Aldous Huxley
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A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit…
— Joan Walsh Anglund
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You can only hear clearly when you sit quietly, when you give your attention. Nor can you have order if you are not free to…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic....So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your…
— Edward Abbey
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{While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don't question or doubt whether I am in the "correct" state or…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth,…
— Frederick Franck
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Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be…
— Jaggi Vasudev
Who Wrote These Sit Quietly Quotes
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