Joan Baez Quotes

No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.

I firmly believe that if we all just took a little time - like 10 or 15 minutes a day - to do nothing but sit calmly with our thoughts, this world would be a much better place.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

I love silence.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

I have not yet learned to keep still.

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

'Silence,' I think, was the hardest, because it's so different from everything we've done before and required very delicate handling and trying to find the right meditative pace.

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.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

Take time to be quiet.

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.

Stillness is the altar of spirit.