“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.” InspirationQuietExperienceSakeConvictionDenyMoving ForwardBeing YourselfPeace And Quiet Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under.” SelfWould BeSpeakCausesDarkSilenceTakenQuietEdgesConvictionPushingVolumeButtonsTranquilitySilence IsDark PlacesKnobsPeace Tranquility Author:Khaled Hosseini
“There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought nothing of slender legs shown off in miniskirts--it was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world approved--but the fat woman's act was about the quiet conviction that one shared only with oneself, a sense of rightness that others failed to see.” PeopleWorldEasyQuietSafeSizeOneselfConvictionLegsFatsDisplayPlatformsSkirtsApprovedSlenderThriceShort SkirtsFat Women Book:Americanah Source: Americanah