Silence Quotes

A quiet mind cureth all.
Robert Burton

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
Mother Teresa

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.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
Thomas Merton

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
Aristotle

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
Mother Teresa

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
Meister Eckhart

Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa

Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
W.W. Story

Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi