Brian Welch Quotes

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.

I'm not a very glamorous person. I like to just sit alone in a room and read a book or meditate.

What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won't be lost. Kids will not run crazy in one day. Lovers won't stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear. Just take that one day and think. Don't read. Don't write. No television, no radio, no distractions. Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think. Call it a healing day.

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

By all means use some time to be alone.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's interesting that reading, like listening to podcasts, is a lone pursuit, one where we keep our mouths shut and let someone else do the talking. Where we absorb rather than emit. By occasionally isolating ourselves, we can more successfully, more generously, socialise.

Downtime for me is just when I can sit still.

I definitely have to pray and spend a lot of time by myself when I can.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.

The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

In my down time, I'm a homebody. I like to do a walkabout. I like my alone time.

Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.

I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.

In quiet moments, I love to read.

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.