The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I think the opposite version of me is the one we don't see, which is there are tens of thousands of outrageously… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
I'm able to behave like the guy you see onstage although that's not my entire existence. I might be a portion of… — Katt Williams Copy Share Image
My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips,… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that people are so fascinated by Jared Kushner is that he has had no role at all in… — Sarah Ellison Copy Share Image
I lost my mind at 15. I'd been shown a world where there were no boundaries, where everyone gave me all the… — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
My times of silence before God are very important to me now. I put everything else down, every word away, and I… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
Take some time to be silent and repeat the sound of God as an inner mantra. Meditation allows you to make conscious… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“An even more pointed example of the the power of the silence tabu in libraries occurred in Duluth in 1981. The police… — Ray B. Browne Copy Share Image
I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don't like showing their passports. It's becoming a scary place. It takes… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
So far rich people have been very quiet about the possibility of getting taxes raised on them, but that doesn't mean they… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
You select the colors of your thoughts; drab or bright, weak or strong, good or bad. You select the colors of your… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I… — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don't bother about… — Mooji Copy Share Image
What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the… — Catherine Ingram Copy Share Image
This may not be the path for everyone. But the trust of which we speak is not an act of heroism. it… — William McGurn Copy Share Image
In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just… — Benedict Wong Copy Share Image
My mom tells this story that even when I was in the womb, my father played the piano and she sang. So,… — Cyrus Chestnut Copy Share Image
Life was about spending time together , about having the time to walk together holding hands, talking quietly as the sun go… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
And when I smiled, 'Bing!' I almost blinded her. She said, 'Great Scot, are you a thief? Seems like you have a… — Slick Rick Copy Share Image
When I first came to the Eagles, I found a bunch of guys shell-shocked from losing. They had been through some lean… — Ron Jaworski Copy Share Image
There is nothing like books - of all things sold incomparably the cheapest, of all pleasure the least palling, they take up… — Samuel Palmer Copy Share Image
