Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Take time to be quiet.

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

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

I aspire only to silence.

I love silence.

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

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

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

Silence is the most powerful state.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

I believe silence is the greatest sound of all.

My hobby is silence.

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

There are few takers for the quiet heart.

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.

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

In quietness the soul expands.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

Remain quiet. Don't feel you have to talk all the time. Go within and you will see the Loveliness behind all beauty.