Quotes of Stillness - somelinesforyou

“ In some causes silence is dangerous. ”

- Saint Ambrose

“ Please, we can get along here. ”

- Rodney King

“ I continued to protect him with my silence. ”

- Joyce Maynard

“ I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again. ”

- Anne Frank

“ I love your silences, they are like mine. ”

- Anais Nin

“ Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ Silence is often the best thing to say. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ You have peace... when you make it with yourself. ”

- Mitch Albom

“ If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. ”

- Henry Miller

“ If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. ”

- Paula A. Bendry

“ Silence gives us a new way of looking at something. ”

- Harold Ross

“ My meditation-silence Expedites My God-Peace-Home return journey. ”

- Sri Chinmoy

“ Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. ”

- Peter Minard

“ Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto! ”

- Robert Burns

“ Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ In this white waveI am sinkingin this silencein this white wavein this silenceI believe. ”

- Sarah McLachlan

“ He had a kind of quietness and calmness and maturity about him that resonated with others and they respected,... model myself after Mario. ”

- Janet Harris

“ Silence of the Lambs. ”

- Jodie Foster

“ Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. (Proverbs 17:28). ”

- Bible

“ S Is for Silence. ”

- Sue Grafton

“ Silence is not useful any more. ”

- Hosni Mubarak

“ Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. ”

- William Makepeace Thackeray

“ Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this. ”

- Paul Robeson

“ Silence is the unbearable repartee. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent. ”

- Charles James Fox

“ For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness, without which literature cannot be made. ”

- Gore Vidal

“ Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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