Quotes about Quiet

Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks.

Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?""Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet.

Walk into a library anywhere in the world and you'll notice the same thing: It's quiet and calm. Everyone knows how to behave in a library. In fact, few things transcend cultures like library behavior. It's a place where people go to read, think, study, focus, and work. And the hushed, respectful environment reflects that. Isn't that what an office should be?

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

The quiet, almost passive young woman struck him as exactly the kind of person to whom things were bound to happen, no matter how much she shrank from them and went out of her way to avoid them.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind

By being peaceful, quiet, and receptive, you pattern yourself in the image of God, and you regain the power of your Source.

You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

As we approached Villano we talked over the problem of keeping the guides quiet. We decided that we would have to impress on them the danger to them personally if word of the location of the Aucas got around and if, as a result, there were attacks on the Aucas by the Quichuas or others, followed by Auca reprisal raids.