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Quiet and Sayings About It

Claudia Miclaus
Does silence and quiet express something? They surely do and sometimes they do it best.
"St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music is not a physical sound that vibrates the eardrum but something transcending the senses. Physical solitude and silence remove the distracting noises that prevent us from hearing on deeper levels."
― Charles Cummings
Being quiet can be a medicine to a sad soul to come out of it, though many of us find it's easy to express or share one's feeling with the dear and near ones. What will you do if there is no one to speak your heart out? Won't you try to solve the issue yourself by finding its solution? Yes, you will.
A quiet person can deal the things a way better than the one unstable with thoughts. Here are few quotes and saying focusing on positivity of being quiet in the life.
"The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing."
― Zephaniah 3:17

"Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you..."
― 1 Thessalonians 4:11
"Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight."
― 1 Peter 3:3-4
"The fruit of righteousness will be peace; the effect of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever."
― Isaiah 32:17"

"Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife."
― Proverbs 17:1

"...It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD."
― Lamentations 3:26

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"This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: "In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength..."
― Isaiah 30:15
"The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools."
 ― Ecclesiastes 9:17
"A hot-tempered man stirs up dissension, but a patient man calms a quarrel."
― Proverbs 15:18

"If a ruler's anger rises against you, do not leave your post; calmness can lay great errors to rest."
― Ecclesiastes 10:4

"The inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
― Walter Bagehot, 1870
"There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy."
― Gregory Bateson, Angels Fear

"I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes."
― Richard Steele
"A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live."
― Bertrand Russell

"Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding."
― Bernie Krause

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"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
― Anonymous
"There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it."
― Minnie Aumonier

"Silence is not a thing we make; it is something into which we enter. It is always there. All we can make is noise."
― Mother Maribel of Wantage
"There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fount of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being, welcoming me tenderly, saluting me with indescribable humility."
― Thomas Merton
"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls."
― Mother Teresa
"Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us."
― Thomas Kelly

"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listened to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."
― Karl Menninger

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"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."
― Hans Margolius

"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."
― William Penn
"Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone."
― Thomas De Quincey

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
― Aldous Huxley