Quieting Quotes

#1. Meditation is the process of quieting one's mind, and letting go of the worries and stress of life.

Tim McCarthy

#2. Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

Hugh Jackman

#3. We learn a great lesson when we come to understand that the deliberate quieting of our souls and minds before God is the secret of true adoration.

Andrew Murray

#4. Meditation is really just quieting yourself enough so you can get in touch with your own inner wisdom.

Louise Hay

#5. They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric looked at her too long, as though he forgot he was looking, as though he did not wish to do anything else. She looked back. Her took heart took its time quieting down.

Shannon Hale

#6. By relaxation, I don't mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I'm talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.

Bernie Siegel

#7. Repentance is not about earning grace but entering it; not about quenching his wrath but quieting the accusations of our hearts; not about unlocking his mercy but releasing our sin-sick sorrow to the Savior, who already rejoices to receive it.

Bryan Chapell

#8. And Lydia herself - the reluctant center of their universe - every day, she held the world together. She absorbed her parents' dreams, quieting the reluctance that bubbled up within.

Celeste Ng

#9. There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

John Millington Synge

#10. It's about quieting your mind and getting into certain states where everything outside of you doesn't matter in that moment. There are so many things telling you that you can't do something, but you take those thoughts captive, take power over them and change them.

Russell Okung

#11. Rest in your God-breathed worth. Stop holding your breath, hiding your gifts, ducking your head, dulling your roar, distracting your soul, stilling your hands, quieting your voice, and satiating your hunger with the lesser things of this world.

Sarah Bessey

#12. Meditation is the progressive quieting of our mind, until we reach the source of thought, which in wisdom traditions are the realm of our soul and spirit. In this domain of awareness there is infinite creativity, synchronicity, the power of intention, and freedom from limitations.

Deepak Chopra

#13. I don't believe you have to get a peaceful heart, I think there is a native tranquility within each of us that's already there. And through quieting your mind and your heart, you can slip right down into it.

John O'Donohue

#14. You've ruined me," she repeats, her voice quieting a little as it catches. "You've ruined me - you made me wake up. And now I can't get rid of you." Her voice surges again as I reach out, curling my hand around her arm, her skin flushed hot under my fingers. "You won't leave me alone.

Amie Kaufman

#15. Whatever the method, the purpose of quieting the mind is always the same ... to step out of you own way and touch a Universal Oneness with all things.

Susan Jeffers

#16. I'm getting older , so I'm quieting down a bit.

Steve Coogan

#17. The quieting of our mind is a political act.

Jack Kornfield

#18. I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.

Helen Keller

#19. Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

Patanjali

#20. She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be.

Nicholas Sparks

#21. I lived through this, I needed to find a new fuckin' job. Janitor. Used car salesman. Guinea pig trainer.

Jessica Gadziala

#22. Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.

William Hogarth

#23. In my long life, I have known some great economists, but I have never counted myself among their number nor walked in their company.

Ronald Coase

#24. The last girl I love will be someone I haven't even met yet, probably.

Chuck Klosterman

#25. His kiss swept through me like a storm... ... Leaving a mark that would never fade.

Shigeyoshi Takagi

#26. All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.

John Galt

#27. The identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

Amartya Sen

#28. You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.

Vance Havner