I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.
When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that. "
Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can steady them, and are experiencing instead, a lingering sense that there is something more important they should be doing. . . as if what is quietly achieved in righteous individual living or in parenthood are not sufficiently spectacular.
"Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly. " "I want to be a soldier. A hero. " "You'll grow out of it. "
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
We're all right, you know,' he says quietly. 'You and me. Okay?' My chest aches, and I nod. 'Nothing else is all right. ' His whisper tickles my cheek. 'But we are.
Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie. . . in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.
Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they do than the approbation of men, which is fame, namely, their duty; that they should be constantly and quietly at work, each in his sphere, regardless of effects, and leaving their fame to take care of itself.
The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.
When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are, and then be what's left, what remains is the untarnished presence of who you've always been and still really are.
Grampa took Mary Ellen inside away from the crowd. "Now, child, I am going to show you what my father showed me, and his father before," he said quietly. He spooned the honey onto the cover of one of her books. "Taste," he said, almost in a whisper. . . . "There is such sweetness inside of that book too!" he said thoughtfully. "Such things. . . adventure, knowledge and wisdom. But these things do not come easily. You have to pursue them. Just like we ran after the bees to find their tree, so you must also chase these things through the pages of a book!
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
Sit quietly and open up to spirit.
Where you quietly know within, you have no choice.
When we speak quietly one to another things somehow get settled.
My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.
I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly. " I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.
I have not wept since the death of my parents," said Luxa quietly. "But I am thought to be unnatural in this respect.
If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.
It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.