“Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.” WayMayHardSilenceAcceptingHard WorkComplainingDustSmokeExtrasMinorsComplaintsAnnoyedAggravationDraughtAlways Complaining Book:Osler's Source: Osler's
“The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.” HardSilenceToo MuchFaultsNo MoneyHard Days Author:Bill Barich
“I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge.” PeopleThinkingHardBodyWould BeAbleMovingChallengesSpaceWalksSilenceOkayBe GoodStillnessInteracting Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.” KnowsMenWorldWayDoeSelfHardYoungSilenceTalkingDoubtHeardStreetsFieldsExerciseTrainDareLimitationCrushYoung WomenHarassmentPresumptionSelf-doubtSpeaking UpOverconfidence Author:Rebecca Solnit
“Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.” HardShowsRealityChanceSleepRoomsSilenceSeaWindowTallInfinityCandleChill Book:Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology Source: Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology
“One of the nice things about our marriage, at least to my way of thinking, is that my wife and I no longer have to argue every thing through. We each know what the other will say, and so the saying becomes an unnecessary formality. No doubt some marriage counselor would explain to us that our problem is a failure to communicate, but to my way of thinking we've worked long and hard to achieve this silence, Lily's and mine, so fraught with mutual understanding.” ThinkingKnowsWayLongHardProblemUnderstandingSilenceDoubtNiceWifeAchieveMinesCommunicateMy WifeArguingMy WayNo DoubtMutualUnnecessaryWay Of ThinkingLiliesNice ThingsCounselorFormalityMutual Understanding Book:Straight Man Source: Straight Man