For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“It seemed to her the window was a great eye looking out over the city and the harbour and a strip of… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
I felt like I had to be conscious of myself as a girl for the first time. I had to be more… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
“Words were his delight; Hers, a gay gracefulness Of dancing and moving. But when to the place Of deep loving (Starlight at… — Theodore Spencer Copy Share Image
I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don't think for a single moment, "To be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes… — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been… — Christabel Pankhurst Copy Share Image
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“We need to find God and God cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how… — Mother Teresa of Calcutta Copy Share Image
“Am I making something worth while? I’m not sure. I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“My silence knot is tied up in my hair; as if to keep my love out of my eyes. I cannot speak… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“So I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“First, observe and ponder, and then use silence to speak, and then speak through words, then take action to correct something; make… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“On the thought a blessed silence came, an empty clarity. He took it a first for utter desolation, but desolation was a… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
If I'm walking down the street, and if a person abuses me, the dignified thing to do is to keep walking, but… — Hrithik Roshan Copy Share Image
At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There are different qualities of silence. There's the silence that sustains us, as women, that nourishes us, the silence where I believe… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“On every side was the silence, pressing upon them with a tangible presence. It affected their minds as the many atmospheres of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
“Silence is another element we find in classic fairy tales — girls muted by magic or sworn to silence in order to… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“I should be able to return to solitude each time as to the place I have never described to anybody, as the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“After seeing how many people waste their lives, their whole lives (tongues wagging, wagging, wagging, and all the inevitable consequences), silence seems… — Josemaría Escrivá Copy Share Image
Today the separation of church and state is America is used to silence the church... The way the concept is used today… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“A long moment of silence stretched out between them. Her conversation to this point had mostly been an attempt to distract him… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Ranger picked up and there was a moment of silence as if he was sensing me at the other end, taking my… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
George turned to her. His blue eyes widened. His lovely face took on a forlorn, deeply troubled expression. He leaned forwar, and,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“There are many Beth's in the world, who and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully, that… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
