Lynn Johnston Quotes

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard. Everyone has a listening point somewhere. It does not have to be in the north or close to the wilderness, but someplace of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with awe.

The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.

Take time to be quiet.

The beginning of prayer is silence.

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

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

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

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Night is the mother of counsels.

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.

Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.

I find inspiration and rhythm in everything. Really I do. And I find inspiration in the really quiet moments.

Listen to the sound of silence.

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Silence is worth a thousand pieces of silver.

Spend as much time as you can in silence. Look at the way the sun paints the ground gold.