Top 100 The Quiet Mind Quotes
#1. Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown ...
Robert Greene
#2. The quiet mind is richer than a crown ... Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.
Robert Greene
#3. Because oftentimes the quiet mind could see and hear things the busy mind could not.
Brenna Aubrey
#4. Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#5. By balancing your breathing, you can control your emotions and calm your mind. From the quiet mind arises the wisdom and insight that help you make good choices.
Ilchi Lee
#6. The most powerful mind is the quiet mind. It is the mind that is present, reflective, mindful of its thoughts and its state. It doesn't often multitask, and when it does, it does so with a purpose.
Maria Konnikova
#9. I hope you won't mind, because I haven't shaved since this morning, but I'm going to take you round the next quiet corner and kiss you.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#10. Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of mind that we forget that it's just another transient state of mind, no matter how much ecstasy or agony is involved.
Frederick Lenz
#11. The next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the power of quiet.
Susan Cain
#13. If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.
Herbert Benson
#14. The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.
Ajahn Chah
#15. There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.
Washington Irving
#16. No matter what night preceded it, she had never known a morning when she did not feel the rise of a quiet excitement that became a tightening energy in her body and a hunger for action in her mind - because this was the beginning of day and it was a day of her life.
Ayn Rand
#17. Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.
Flora Thompson
#18. Eventually it will become quiet enough so that you can simply watch the heart begin to react, and let go before the mind starts. At some point in the journey it all becomes heart, not mind ... The mind doesn't even get a
chance to start up because you let go at
the heart level.
Michael Singer
#19. Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.
Edward Carpenter
#20. I am a late starter. I like to go on into the night when it's quiet and everything has shut down. I find that's where music and minds open in the dark.
Shelby Lynne
#21. Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.
Frederick Lenz
#22. A Quiet Mind Lord, give me a quiet mind, That I might listen; A gentle tone of voice, That I might comfort others; A sound and healthy body, That I might share In the joy of walking And leaping and running; And a good sense of direction So I might know just where I'm going!
Ruskin Bond
#23. A quiet mind allows the artist to tap into the wellspring of Divine Music within.
Kenny Werner
#24. Quiet the mind's constant chatter of uncontrolled thoughts.
Steven Redhead
#25. I was quite possibly in the midst of losing my mind. I needed to get away from people until I figured out if I actually was losing my mind.
Ransom Riggs
#26. Peace of mind is a perception of a calm and quiet mind.
Debasish Mridha
#28. There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.
Jenny Nimmo
#29. If you keep focusing, gradually thoughts will become quieter and quieter, gradually the images will disappear from the mind. What is happening is the kundalini energy begins to radiate and rise, it causes the mind to be quiet.
Frederick Lenz
#30. There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#31. Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.
Bertolt Brecht
#32. When mind is quiet, all is Self. When mind moves the world arises. So be Still, throw away everything and be Free.
H.W.L. Poonja
#33. Then once you've got that dream in mind please dream a million more and not a million quiet dreams, a million dreams that roar!
Dallas Clayton
#34. Don't worry about the finish line. Don't question what you're doing. Just quiet your mind and keep up the pace.
Dana Reinhardt
#35. To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#37. To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
William James
#38. The quiet brings to mind the multitude of men and women living out their days in solitude - each convinced that their fears and wants are unique to themselves - and she longs to press herself into their fold and be counted among those whose lives are meshed with the turning of the world.
John Pipkin
#39. I think it's really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It's funny to me that we're expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I'm famous?
Lisa Edelstein
#40. Yes; the poem goes something like this: 'Bamboo without mind, yet sends thoughts soaring among clouds. Standing on the lone mountain, quiet, dignified, it typifies the will of a gentleman.
Painted and written with light heart, Wu Chen.'
Sunday, May 31, 1992
Audrey Niffenegger
#41. The experience of playing music at a young age really opens up one's mind to different melody in life itself, literally - like, when you've even played a recorder, or whatever, it becomes a lot easier to hear the beauty in a bird's song, or the quiet tune in a gentle rustle of the wind.
Dave Smalley
#42. Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.
Jared Brock
#43. Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
Jack Kornfield
#44. When I sing the dogs sit quiet and people who pass in the night stop their jabbering and discontent and think of other times, when they were happy. And I sing of other times, when I was happy, though I know that these are figments of my mind and nowhere I have ever been.
Jeanette Winterson
#45. My mind is quiet now. There is no fire or ash, no sulfur or shattering glass. Only silence, empty and cold.
Christine Fonseca
#46. Mind can comprehend things only at its particular level of vibration. As the mind become calm and quiet it can see and understand deeper things.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#47. Invention comes about when we let it, when we don't mind feeling stupid as we do it - it feels like what children do, it is what children do - when we clear a place for it, become quiet, and wait.
Alice Mattison
#48. Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness.
Jeremy Taylor
#49. A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
Adyashanti
#50. When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#52. If someone has a better idea, be willing to listen with an open mind and keep quiet until they complete their thoughts.
Blair Singer
#53. Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind.
Ken Cohen
#54. In the solitude of meditation, when your conscious mind becomes quiet, your subconscious reveals herself.
Nityananda Das
#55. I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.
Ram Dass
#57. When I see things, I speak my mind. But I'm a quiet leader, if anything.
Chris Copeland
#58. As you focus your attention on the heart center, you will begin to feel your thoughts slowing down. You'll begin to feel your mind becoming calm and quiet. They won't bother you.
Frederick Lenz
#59. A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life.
Margaret Walker
#60. When you sit quiet and watch yourself,
many things may come to the surface.
Do nothing about them, don't react to them.
As they have come, so will they go, by themselves.
All that matters is mindfulness, total awareness of oneself,
or rather, of one's mind.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#61. You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.
Norbert Of Xanten
#62. She saw only that he was quiet and onubtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation.
Jane Austen
#63. I'm trying to think of myself at a quiet time. I need to do better with a quiet mind because I'm constantly going and I think that's what feeds me. I've been that way my whole life. But I don't think I picture things so much as I talk them through. Words, words, words. Words and melody.
Kelli O'Hara
#64. Go in all simplicity; do not be anxious to win a quiet mind, and it will be all the quieter. Do not examine so closely into the progress of your soul. Do not crave too much to be perfect, but let your spiritual life beformed by your duties, and by the actions which are called forth by circumstances.
Saint Francis De Sales
#65. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation.
Graham Greene
#66. Sometimes at night, when I was alone, or when I was at the pool, in the quiet stillness underwater, my mind would go to that place. To the hospital, to the people there. It was as if my heart could travel, over the miles, over the months that had passed, and I was back with her. Olivia
Cylin Busby
#67. Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.
Laozi
#68. It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.
Charles R. Swindoll
#69. Before you rise every morning let your mind drift gently to the awareness of the support you can draw from this quiet moment as you align your life with your Soul purpose and gather around you and be receptive and connect to the love your Soul brings to you.
Genevieve Gerard
#70. What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.
Henry David Thoreau
#71. Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time. Stop it - and just BE.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#73. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#74. If We Sit With An Increasing Stillness Of The BodyThe Mind Gradually Stills And The Heart Is Filled With Quiet Joy
Ravi Ravindra
#75. I like working on the house, small carpentry stuff. I also like working on the van. That's about as quiet as my mind gets, I think. I always loved working on the How's Your News? TV show and at Camp Jabberwocky too.
Chad Urmston
#76. A piece of advice his father had given him surfaced in Edgar's mind. Sometimes, he had said, it's better just to keep quiet and think with your heart.
Sharan Newman
#77. I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.
Shirley Temple
#78. Tsukuru's mind grew still and tranquil. A quiet feeling, like a frozen tree on a windless winter night. But there was little pain mixed in. Over the years Tsukuru had grown used to this mental image, so much so that it no longer brought him any particular pain.
Haruki Murakami
#79. Lo thus by day my limbs, by night my mind,
For thee, and for myself, no quiet find.
William Shakespeare
#80. Whatever you may have to do, watch your mind. Also you must have moments of complete inner peace and quiet, when your mind is absolutely still. If you miss it, you miss the entire thing. If you do not, the silence of the mind will dissolve and absorb all else.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#81. If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission.
Deborah Feldman
#82. If I can't find a cat, I stop and quiet my mind, not yelling the cat's name, and focus on connecting with the cat and then I get the message and go to that room or outside door and find the cat.
Bernie Siegel
#83. I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.
Tiger Woods
#84. Work, fight, live. All the sweeter. Mind after mind will shape and absorb. In the end, all will be quiet with wisdom.
Greg Bear
#85. It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.
H.W.L. Poonja
#86. She feels the anger quiet into a briny resentment. The bitterness floats like an inkblot in her mind's eye.
Hala Alyan
#87. My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.
Camille Paglia
#88. Have you ever sat very silently, not with your attention fixed on anything, not making an effort to concentrate, but with the mind very quiet, really still?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#89. Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.
Gautama Buddha
#90. My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.
Ram Dass
#91. Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.
Steve Goodier
#92. A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so that we can hear what in both Judaism and Christianity, is called the small, still voice within.
Marianne Williamson
#93. A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away
Sri Aurobindo
#94. What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without uttering a word, the mind empty of any thought, good or wicked. It is continuing to sit peacefully, facing a wall, and nothing more. Every day.
Taisen Deshimaru
#95. He went through the old motions of his life, taking care of what needed caring for, keeping mostly quiet about what was on his mind. But his hard waiting changed him; you could see it in his face.
Wendell Berry
#96. The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature.
George Muller
#97. To preserve the silence within
amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens
no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.
Dag Hammarskjold
#98. In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.
Geeta Iyengar
#99. I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal and thrash around. They'd fight. It's almost as if cows don't know they have a choice. Not that they don't panic, but they do so in a quiet way.
Cloris Leachman
#100. It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.
Sarah Dessen
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