Gladys Taber Quotes

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

I aspire only to silence.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

My hobby is silence.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

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.

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?

Listen to the sound of silence.

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.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

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

When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring about bliss faster than anything you can ever imagine or ever do.

No one dare disturb the sound of silence...

I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.

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

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.

You see more sitting still than chasing after.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.