Khalil Gibran Quotes

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

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 daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important.

But for me I think it's just about taking that time of reflection and contemplation. That's probably my process in every decision that I make: to make sure that I spend time just with myself, and really times of silence and mediation to go through that process; and music is a big part of that as well.

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.

I mean, I can't say that I've had many deep thoughts because I traveled alone, but it's good to be with myself in the quiet.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.

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.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

I love to sit on my own and think, not to be photographed all the time.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.

Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

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.

How dear to the mind of the sage are the thoughts that are bred in loneliness; for there is as it were music at his heart, and he talketh within him as with friends.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company