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Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever. -- Ieyasu Tokugawa
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply. -- Truman Capote
Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise. -- James Stephens
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God. -- Thomas a Kempis
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat. -- John Selden
Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own. -- Margaret Wise Brown
It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together. -- Jesse Jackson
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
God gives quietness at last. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
All that is important comes in quietness and waiting. -- Patrick Lindsay
My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind. -- Helen Steiner Rice
In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness. -- Tacitus
Growing older, I love only quietness: who need be concerned with the things of this world? Looking back, what better plan than this: returning to the grove. -- Li Bai
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite. -- Elbert Hubbard
The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget, and worry becomes an impossibility. -- Oswald Chambers
When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are. -- Adyashanti
We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Now I begin to feel that that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more. -- Rodney Collin
The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work proceeds, is to cultivate an inner quietness, a peace of mind so that goodness can shine through. -- Robert M. Pirsig
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
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
I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again. -- C. S. Lewis
I need both to feel good: the energy of the city and the quietness of the country. -- Charlotte Casiraghi
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever. -- Tokugawa Ieyasu
I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?' -- Marianne Williamson
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
When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification. -- Ram Dass
I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am. -- John Lydon
In quietness the soul expands, -- Rockwell Kent
In quietness we find inner peace. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Green calm below, blue quietness above. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
The quietness of spirit is an inner peace. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
In the moment of quietness, my strength re-energized -- Lailah Gifty Akita
There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness -- Fernando Pessoa
With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world. -- Laozi
Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans. -- Munia Khan
Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The true lasting quietness... comes from a complete consecration to the Divine -- Mirra Alfassa
Sometimes, the word and the quietness are like the hole and the star. -- Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression
A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower. -- Rumi
Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose. -- Caroline Emelia Stephen
I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair. -- Henri Matisse
The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life. -- Helen Keller
Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The fact of our salvation being not something, but Someone, produces quietness of spirit and an unshakable confidence. -- Herbert Lockyer
Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me. -- Mervyn Peake
Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study -- Charles R. Swindoll
The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness. -- Elisabeth Elliot
By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to makefriends with the quietness of our sensations. -- Sharon Salzberg
Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart. -- Ram Dass
When some give you advice, say 'thank you'. Then, you must seek the quietness of your spirit for a reflection and direction. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me. -- Anne Sexton
I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time. -- Edward Kennedy
Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying. -- Robert Rauschenberg
I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and rage of his. -- William Shakespeare
Mentally prepare ourselves for excellence...block out the noise of everyday distractions and tap into the quietness of meaningful focus, intent and a winning mindset. -- Robert Cheeke
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever. -- Tokugawa Ieyasu
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A more happy mind leads to quietness and clarity. And that clarity helps you have a greater capacity to do more and to become more successful and more giving. -- Russell Simmons
Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points. -- John Selden
The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure. -- Euripides
Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength." -- Charles Stanley
Don't judge me unfriendly, I'm not arrogant, I'm not shy i just like quietness, cause i can nurture my own world and it's make me back as my original as introverted -- Abhiyanda B.
Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error. -- William Thoms
Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles? -- Leonardo da Vinci
HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long. -- Alice Walker
Motivational Quotes on: Honesty, Success, Kind There was a tremendous modesty in the man as he spoke, a quietness and dignity. There was a simplicity and honesty and unselfconsciousness, and a tremendous peace. -- Walter Russell

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