Nicholas Sparks Quotes

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

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together...this is the great paradox.

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

I love silence.

If your mind is still, you're the happiest.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Find patience in the breath of life.

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

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

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

Real action is in silent moments.

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

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

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.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.

A silence is needed before death, before life, before love. If you love a person you sit silently with the person. You would not like to chatter, you would like to just hold their hand and live and be silent in that moment. If you chatter, that means you are avoiding the person - love is not really there. If you love life, chattering will drop, because every moment is so filled with life that there is no way, no space to chatter. Each moment life is flooding you so vitally - where is the time to gossip and chatter?

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

Just by being aware, thoughts start disappearing. There is no need to fight. Your awareness is enough to destroy them. And when the mind is empty, the temple is ready. And inside the temple the only god worth placing is silence. So those three words you have to remember: relaxation, thoughtlessness, silence. And if these three words are no more words to you but become experiences, your life will be transformed.

Take time to be quiet.

Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.

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