The ChairI’m writing to you, who made the archaic wooden chairlook like a throne while you sat on it.Amidst your absence, I choose to sit on the floor,which is dusty as a dry Kansas day.I...

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.

As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which...

Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown…

Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?

By your side I’m most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

You are mad to be spending the summer in the country, where the days are too quiet and you have so much time to think. In the city you live on Broadway, where the noise...

When I write I find a quiet place.

Solitude is the house of peace.

Quiet is a blessed gift. In this frantic world how we must cherish every moment of it, and carve it out for ourselves every chance we get.

In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.

He’s being silent again. Tell him to be quiet.

A silent velvet footstep filled me, unwelcome yet so needed. You finally found my hidden shore with grains of time and ocean of the most secret secrets, violet and red; left a trail of deep...

I like fishing. Not actual fishing – I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It’s different.

I need a break after school,” she told me later. “School is hard because a lot of people are in the room, so you get tired. I freak out if my mom plans a play...

When the thoughts in our mind are quiet, all that’s left, is love. Just Love.

In exchange for my silence, I want a box of quiet. Empty—and full. That’s also how I like my morning coffee at night.

People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when...

Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.

Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In such situations it is better to undertake the practice of yoga–whether physical yoga...

But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

Be open in everything with your partner, because where there is secrecy, it can mistakenly come off as being sneaky; where you just may be innocently quiet.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.

Remember to say what you mean, but don’t say it meanly.

Everyone has expectations. You just don’t want to have them dashed, so you’re quiet about them.

Silence can bring us into alignment with our thoughts and feelings and help us to hear the quiet spiritual voice of our intuition.

Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.

People like you don’t go mad, Vi. They’re quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

Speaking of happiness, those distinctive moments are found outdoors – in the fall, in the winter and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

This forest silence improves anyone.

We hunger for quiet times; we find in them a womb to renew our strength.

Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course, they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

Se nu er jeg borte fra byens larm ogtrængsel og aviser og mennesker, jeg erflygtet fra det altsammen fordi det igjenkaldte på mig fra landet og ensomhetenhvor jeg er fra. Du skal se det kommertil...

The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts.

that’s what happens when you don’t pay your book fines.

Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled with conversation or thought bubbles or laughter or sidelong glances. Everyone...

It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.

Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought.

I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, … I was there on the page

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

It’s quiet in the car, in a good way for once. No words, no music. Silence seems right. I roll down the windows and lean my head against the door frame, listening to the wind...

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower…I live still a collegiate student…and lead a monastic life, ipse...