Sally Quinn Quotes

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

I try to take each moment at a time.

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

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

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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

After all is said and done, sit down.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

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.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Take time to be quiet.

the beauty of doing nothing

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

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.

Let your mind and soul be at ease. Don't grasp and grab for the magic and miracles. When you reside in that place of stillness, the joy, miracles, and magic you're seeking will find you.

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.