Quotes related to Psalm 46:10
To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.
— Winston Churchill
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
— Mother Teresa
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
— Mortimer Adler
There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
— Marilyn Monroe
Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.
— Deepak Chopra
Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.
— Melody Beattie
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs — To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind.
— John Updike
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.
— Mother Teresa
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.
— Celine Dion
One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.
— Thomas Merton
I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.
— Donald Miller