Melody Beattie Quotes

I just want silence... Jesus, it doesn't mean I don't like you. It just means right now, I like silence more.

I love silence.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

I like silence.

I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

Nothing increases happiness like quiet time. The truth is, the only moments that make you laugh or happy are seconds of stillness.

They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.

Take time to be quiet.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.

He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

The place that I love most is the stillness. It's not that the stillness is lost when I talk or when I teach because the words arise out of the stillness. But when people leave me, there is only the stillness left. And I love that so much.

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.