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“The voice of wisdom is inherent within us and willing to guide us when we stop to listen. Of course, there are times when we feel we've been still as stone, and the still, small voice is still too quiet to hear. When this happens, the challenge is to practice quieting your mind anyway. Stopping and asking, quieting and listening, trusting and waiting. Waiting is difficult but worth the effort because a quiet, uncluttered mind is a natural antenna for whispers of wisdom from within.”

Source: The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

“Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair.”

Stills Stars Silence Sadness Healthy Quiet Stones Breaths Rounds Sat Gray Noon Fiery Shady Saturn

Author:John Keats

“Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. - through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.”

People Writing Ideas Waiting Rocks Flower Quiet Stones Metaphor Strikes No Idea Weed Splits Snakes Reconcile

Book:The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

Source: The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

“Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in the epitaph.”

Thinking Way Stills Shows Lasts Beautiful Death Black Numbers Half Wonderful Sorrow Quiet Stones Horse Dresses Grass Midst Falsehood Sculpture Feathers Spoil Cathedrals Credible Epitaph Amiable Vaults

Book:Works

Source: Works

“I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.”

Soul Waiting Cities Attention Quiet Travel Garden Stones Riches Architecture Treasure Wander Yield Formal Medieval Introspective Courteous Clamor Hidden Treasure

Author:Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Hope Hodgson (Illustrated)

“If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.”

“All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one.”

Fall Rooms Quiet Stones Forgotten Ruins Halls Spiders Circuits Dark Tower Dark Tower Series

Book:The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands

Source: The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands

“Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods is the occasional twinkle of partridgeberries. But they are the gem stones, the rare decorations which make the grays, the browns and the greens seem even more quiet, more completely at rest.”

Seems Quiet Stones Rose Fruit Woods Warmth Orange Here And There Occasional Gems Bittersweet Decoration Wild Roses

Author:Hal Borland

“But there would be no confrontation the next day. And for Tommy Williams, there would be no school, either. Because the moment he walked through the gap in the stones to leave the circle, something quiet unexpected happened. Tommy, holding tightly on to his rock, took the step that divided the inside of the circle from the outside - and disappeared. The woods suddenly felt colder than usual. The darkness hung more heavily. The amber was gone - and now nothing would ever be the same.”

Moments Would Be School Next Felt Steps Darkness Gone Happened Rocks Quiet Stones Woods Circles Unexpected Gaps Divided Usual Hung Next Day Confrontation Amber

Author:Liz Kessler