We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart… and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together…. I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude. – Helen Hayes
Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever. – Ieyasu Tokugawa
Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher. – Latin Proverb
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God. – Thomas Kempis
I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least – and it is commonly more than that – sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements. – Henry David Thoreau
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. – E. Stanley Jones
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. – Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. – Hans Margolius
It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. – K.T. Jong
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply. – Truman Capote
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. – Queen Victoria
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. – John Bunyan
With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication. – Lee Krasner
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. – Susan L. Taylor
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. – William Penn
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls. -Henry David Thoreau
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. – Henry David Thoreau
Happiness means quiet nerves. – W.C. Fields
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself. – Zen Proverb
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. – Jack Kerouac
We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves? – Morris Adler
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. – Walter Bagehot
Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude. – Paul Tillich
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that’s where I renew my springs that never dry up. – Pearl Buck
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. – Voltaire
What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it – like a secret vice. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with “a sort of greedy enjoyment,” as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was “saturated with the bouquet of silence.” – Holbrook Jackson
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. – Eric Hoffer
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death – ourselves. – Eda LeShan
The good and the wise lead quiet lives. – Euripides
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. – Robert Louis Stevenson
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