Jack Kerouac Quotes

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain

The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. "I think she listens," she said, too softly to be heard.

Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.

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

We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

I aspire only to silence.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

I love silence.

In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

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

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.

It was enough just to sit there without words.