Great saying by great authors Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Carlyle: a passionate outpouring of words recommending silence and self-control.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great saying by great authors Silence
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“Quiet demonstrates just how deep and disturbing is this plague of extroverts—the showoffs, risk-takers, salesmen, charmers, charlatans and politicians.” —New York Post” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justification.” — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“The quality of silence in my life speaks to the health of my soul/mind. If the silence is deafening, suppressive, terrifying... (it speaks to… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“The best part of silence is that the ego is switched off at least for a while, and we are focusing our attention inwards.” — Dada J. P. Vaswani Copy Share Image
“I am constantly surrounded by noise: TV, texts, the internet, music, meaningless small talk, my thinking. All of it blocks my consciousness, my ability… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
“If we want to let loose and let reality sink in, silence can be a welcoming partner. It becomes a refuge, a sanctuary for… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“I have discovered the rule of silence is one of the most beautiful things in the world. it gives one time for so many,… — Ruth Cashin Monsell Copy Share Image
“Most of all, I love the idea of breaking down the inhibitions that we have as people. It's hard not to share with someone… — Eric Hamacher Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Rosalind. Well, this is the forest of Arden. Touchstone. Ay, now am I in Arden, the more fool I. When I was at home,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Maria. Nay, but say true, doesit work upon him? Sir Toby Belch. Like aqua vitae with a midwife. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
She who does not know she isa patient lies Within a tent of green, and sleeps without a sound — James Kirkup Copy Share Image
Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrotea letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuitslikebecoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying thought the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Here the crow starves, here the patient stag Breeds for the rifle. — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
They are not dead! They havebut passed, Beyond the mists that blind us here, Into the new and larger life, Of that serener sphere. — John Luckey McCreery Copy Share Image
It was a chilly winter's night; And frost was glitt'ring on theground, And evening stars were twinkling bright; — William Barnes Copy Share Image