“If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a quiet devoted relationship to nearby life can give us.” IfsGivingEndsEarthExistenceQuietFulfillmentDevoted Book:Hasidism and modern man Source: Hasidism and modern man
“People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others.” PeopleGivingDoeMemoriesExistenceQuietDinnerExcitementDullRecurringUnemotionalPalimpsestRemote Places Author:M. E. W. Sherwood
“Godly people... nobly endure hard things. They know that their existence is meaningful and that they are destined for unlimited pleasure at the deepest level in heaven. Because they keenly feel that nothing now quite meets the standards of their longing souls, the quiet but deeply throbbing ache within them drives them not to compalint, but to anticipation and further yieldedness.” PeopleKnowsFeelsSoulHardJoySufferingHeavenPleasureLevelsExistenceQuietStandardsLongingEndureMeaningfulAnticipationUnlimitedGodlyDestinedAcheHard Things Author:Larry Crabb
“I'm able to behave like the guy you see onstage although that's not my entire existence. I might be a portion of that guy. At home, quiet prevails. It's incense, candles and birds chirping. Everything's done to maximize peace and tranquility, because we know when we exit those doors, it's going to be a whole different energy.” DifferentDoneHomeGuyEnergyExistenceQuietBirdBehaveCandleTranquility Author:Katt Williams
“I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends. And I’d like to keep living with someone — maybe even a man — and explore relationships that way. And cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence.” MenWayWritingKindCitiesExistenceForeverQuietPerceptionMuseumsLeisureVisionariesHermits Author:Allen Ginsberg
“The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.” NeedsSpiritualExistenceWorstQuietIndividualityCurseConformityDesperationNonconformityStagnationQuiet Desperation Book:The Return Of Merlin Source: The Return Of Merlin
“But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that for her it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.” WellsEnoughMomentsFactsFeltVoiceEffortExistenceEffectsQuietWasteRainDeterminationFlowFinalsThat MomentPurifyingWaste Of Effort Book:Nobel Prize Library Source: Nobel Prize Library
“It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.” LifeMeanPhilosophyMomentsWisdomForgetInspiringExistencePositionQuietUnderstoodBackwardsPonderingPonder This Author:Soren Kierkegaard