“He is susceptible to conference room boredom and is incapable of talking to businessmen, particularly the run-of-the-mill variety. Nero is allergic to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well,… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
To the warriors of light, there is no such thing as impossible love. They don’t allow themselves to be intimidated by silence,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
As Albert Camus wrote, the doctor’s role is as a witness – to witness authentically the reality of humanity, and to speak… — James Orbinski Copy Share Image
“For the modern solitary, the quest for silence has vastly broader boundaries than what one's predecessors faced. Solitude is real only when… — Barbara Erakko Taylor Copy Share Image
And don't pay attention to Christina. Your face doesn't look that bad." He smiles a little. "I mean, it looks good. It… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“If you don't care, don't ask me how I am. Chances are, I don't care how you are, either. And it's not… — Tara Kelly Copy Share Image
“Rumi speaks often of the power of silence to take us to what we are looking for. In one poem he says:… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are harder to cope with in silence. Once asked they… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The softly flowing, white, and parched clouds passed by. I, colored gray, merely kept staring at them as they slowly vanished out… — Kanon Wakeshima Copy Share Image
“There, there, sweetin’,” he murmured into her hair. “He loved me, he truly did,” she gasped. “I know he did,” Michael said.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“I wanted so many times while driving to flip, to skid and flip and fall from the car and have something happen.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“5 Reasons to Develop the Power of the Pause. It . . . 1. encourages your communication partner to express their thoughts… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“For someone who is far from God, silence is a difficult confrontation with his own self and with the rather dismal realities… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“I know that small-town silence, I'd run into it before, intangible as smoke and solid as stone. We honed it on the… — Tana French Copy Share Image
It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
“The moon seemed to veil herself before the bold looks of Satan. The night was cold. All the doors were closed, all… — James Hain Friswell Copy Share Image
There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love.… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently...… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Do you miss being friends with Santangelo?" I ask her after the lights are out and we're almost asleep. "What makes you… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“During the summer I meditated outside in nature. Listening to the wind with the ears are like listening to mere noise, but… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“During congregational silences, in meditation rooms or halls, in prison cells and meeting rooms, in silent confession at church, all these screwed-up… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Their silence was not the result of boredom or apathy, nor were they quiet because it was expected of them or through… — E.R. Braithwaite Copy Share Image
“God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In addition to listening to the audience's laugh, you want to listen to their silence. Is it bored or interested silence? The… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
I'll tell you - what I can tell you is that I know when I saw 'Zodiac' and then again when I… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Slowly the golden memory of the dead sun fades from the hearts of the cold, sad clouds. Silent, like sorrowing children, the… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I was like so many others passion-ately involved in trying to bring those truths to the world's attention. We did our very… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
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