Erin Morgenstern Quotes

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

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

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

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

I love 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.

When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.

Take time to be quiet.

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...

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.

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

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

Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.

My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.

This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

The place that I love most is the stillness. It's not that the stillness is lost when I talk or when I teach because the words arise out of the stillness. But when people leave me, there is only the stillness left. And I love that so much.

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