Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“There was silence between them for moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I want you to know, chickens aren’t sexy. Not to me.” This was met with silence. “Are you there?” She was slurring… — Jill Shalvis Copy Share Image
“What was his name?” She pushed her lips together, shoving away the memory of how he’d looked the last time she’d seen… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling,… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
“She hesitated, wiping her hands off on her apron. “I’m not sure if I’ll be here when you get back. This place… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy,… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Dust sleeping on your bookshelf and all your plants are drying out you are too busy to save yourself is your mind… — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“In the other room Rateau was looking at the canvas, completely blank, in the center of which Jonas had merely written in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It was dark, and there was light. Flashing, burning. There was warmth, and there was ice. Melting, oozing. I was flying, but… — Carian Cole Copy Share Image
“One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are so accustomed to… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love is not an exclusive relationship with another person; love is the quality that arises when we are in contact with our… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We would come at length to the Mall, among whose treetops I could distinguish the steeple of Saint-Hilaire. And I should have… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A chrome spiral staircase connects the main floor to the upper one. It reminds Prospect of a big strand of DNA. Once… — Dwight Okita Copy Share Image
There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“When the little man threw me to the deck, the fall bruised the back of my head. When he ripped my shirt… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“She usually worked at night, claiming that the racket he made about the house distracted her during the day; she needed silence,… — Helen Hodgman Copy Share Image
The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it… — David Swing Copy Share Image
I think I started out okay but with AIDS came a great deal of silence about gayness and this period of lose… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“By noon, silence arrives one last time, flowing into every space of her room. And before long, silence swallows sound and color… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
Play me something that makes me feel; This soul inside me is made of steel. Brain is breathing, but heart’s not beating… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought,… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“This is a tale of woe. This is a tale of sorrow. A love denied, a love restored, to live beyond tomorrow.… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle… which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people.… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
