Quietness Quotes

• Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Mind
  • Resources
  • Quietness

• 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 myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

  

  Rumi
  • Silence
  • Move
  • Died

• I have won several prizes as the world’s slowest alto player, as well as a special award in 1961 for quietness.

  

  Paul Desmond
  • Player
  • Prize
  • Quietness

• No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.

  

  William Walton
  • Honest
  • Streams
  • Scholar

• Embarrassed by her admission and doing her best to ignore the heat searing her cheeks, she dragged her eyes to his and found a quietness waiting there that spoke to her wordlessly.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Ignore
  • Embarrassed
  • Quietness

• True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.

  

  Caroline Emelia Stephen
  • Purpose
  • Stability
  • Steadfastness

• 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 and solitude, you don't really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Reason