Top 1200 Quiet Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

When I get up early, I appreciate the quiet time to enjoy a coffee or water my plants.

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.

They think we’re intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don’t want them to learn the truth.” Rachel

Diane Wilson asked, "Why aren't people upset? Why aren't people protesting?" The mayor and county commissioners told her to keep quiet, and everybody else was afraid to speak out against the companies, which included some of the country's biggest chemical companies. There were even attempts on her life. Family members abandoned her, and certainly none of the other shrimpers stood with her.

Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.

Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences.

I sometimes wonder if necrophiliacs are really into dead people or if they just enjoy the quiet.

My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.

I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

I'm kind of quiet but when I put my helmet on, it's like you flip a switch. I'm ready to go.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

Few people know much about me. I've been so quiet that I'm known as a recluse.

I'm honestly very shy and quiet and to myself. Not that too much shocks me anymore.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

At the end of the day we're humans. Treat others how you want to be treated or just be quiet.

I'm very introspective, and I mostly don't talk to people. I get into a real quiet, meditative place.

Makeup is about balance. When the eye makes a statement, the lips should be quiet.

I still want to have the reputation of kind of being a quiet hardworking type of guy.

We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

I can only imagine the quiet horror that people must endure when they meet me in person.

I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running whisper of the current, and the taps and creaks and croaks that rose with the mist around me. Overhead swing the glittering stars, and the bright moon shone down and lit the curling ripples of the water. At no time in my life had I been in greater danger from the elements, and yet if I learned that heaven is such as that night was, I should deem it a joy worth the dying.

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: "God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way.

O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.

When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.

The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

I kind of put myself out there as is. I'm a quiet person. I don't know if that's surprising. I'm a Pilates junkie.

I'm always busy listening to music or playing PlayStation, I'm never really quiet - I have to be moving.

After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.

The best way to get somebody's attention is with a little quiet, and then yell at 'em.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

I've always been quiet, for the most part, especially any time I've come into a new environment.

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change.

People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.

There is a value in repetition. When we repeat certain phrases and even actions, like fingering prayer beads, we create a quiet rhythm within our spirits. The beating of our heart is a repetition as is the rhythm of our breathing. All of life has its rhythms, and the repetition of familiar prayers can bring our interior spirits into harmony with the Divine Heartbeat and the breathing of the Divine Christ.

A quiet morning with a loving God puts the events of the upcoming day into proper perspective.