Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

Gaga came to me, and I just could not find a soul. I come from church; maybe that has something to do with it. I like to get to the soul of a person. I just didn't feel a soul.

I am genuinely a peaceful person now.

Hawaii is such a wonderful, healing place for me. I feel so at ease with the natives and love the tranquility of the islands. It is a place to find inner peace and be one with nature.

In this life, we are in a constant search for inner peace. We long for it in all aspects of our lives, both personally and professionally. The truth is that we cannot have inner peace without balance. It seems that having too much or too little of anything completely throws off our balance, therefore limiting our inner peace.

Music is something that should give you peace.

Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner or fragment of the world or some little place in time where things just feel so right and huge and powerful and easy that I will have the perhaps blasphemous thought maybe there are layers of heaven.

If you really want to create peace on the earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with... and then spread and radiate peace and love.

I think that one morning, the Papess woke in her tower, and her blankets were so warm, and the sun was so golden, she could not bear it. I think she woke, and dressed, and washed her face in cold water, and rubbed her shaven head. I think she walked among her sisters, and for the first time saw that they were so beautiful, and she loved them. I think she woke up one morning of all her mornings, and found that her heart was as white as a silkworm, and the sun was clear as glass on her brow, and she believed then that she could live, and hold peace in her hand like a pearl.

Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.

If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.

With this sunrise somehow I felt I was exactly where I was supposed to be... Have faith, the light seemed to announce.

Peace in ourselves, peace in the world.

The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found what I was searching for without ever having discovered what it was.

When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously

Zen is everywhere.... But for you, Zen is right here.

Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You cannot be totally relaxed right now. At the innermost core a tension will persist.

Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.