“If you do not yet know where you fit, I suggest you try seeking it in receptive silence. I used to walk amid the beauties of nature, just receptive and silent, and wonderful insights would come to me.” IfsKnowsTryingUsedWalksSilenceVisionWonderfulFitSilentSeekingInsightReceptiveNature Beauty Book:Steps Toward Inner Peace Source: Steps Toward Inner Peace
“Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.” ShouldImportantSpaceSilenceStyleFitEmptyBasesDressesFilledArchitectureOur ThoughtsSequenceImplicationsAccuracyUtteranceEmpty Space Book:the zodiac arch Source: the zodiac arch
“Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.” SilenceWiseBloodFitSettlingMidstSilence IsRoyalBeggarCelestialDescentProvocationRoyal Blood Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active gay child, my complaint against the current attitudes is that they work mightily to silence the voices of children first and secondarily ignore what adults have to say who have been through these situations. One size fits all is never the way to handle any situation with a human dimension. Many, many children-and I was one of them-are desperate to establish some sort of sexual relation with an older and even adult figure.” WayYearsFirstsHumansChildrenHas BeensVoiceSilenceAttitudeSituationFiguresFitGayAdultsRelationSizeCurrentsActiveNineHandleDesperateDimensionsComplaintsEighteenSexuallyNine YearsOne Size Fits All Author:Samuel R. Delany
“Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?” HandsWantedLyingStarsSilenceSadnessFitDecadesBelovedLengthMelancholyPalmsPlaywrightFittingFortnight Book:The Clean House and Other Plays Source: The Clean House and Other Plays
“I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless hate. Everything has merely confirmed what I had seen and understood in my childhood: futile and sordid fits of rage, cries suddenly blanketed by the silence, shadows swallowed up for ever by the night.” WorldNightHateSilenceChildhoodCryFitUnderstoodShadowRageVanityUselessEmptinessCallousnessWorlds ApartEvanescence Author:Eugene Ionesco
“The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.” ImportantMatterSilenceFitConversationSettlingIdolsTantrumsCelluloid Author:Clifton Fadiman