“African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.” KnowsWayNeedsHappinessSuccessFearInspiringSilenceQuietPerseveranceLiberatedKenyaAfrican WomenLiberated Woman Author:Wangari Maathai
“It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.” PerfectInspiringQuietPerfectionCriticismPraiseExcellenceComplainingGentleImperfectionImperfectDefectsFlatteryPerfectionistPerfection And ImperfectionBeing Imperfect Author:Joseph Addison
“But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.” IfsRealizingInspiringHuman NatureQuietConnectedForestsHermits Author:Alan Watts
“Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.” InspirationalMindLittlesSeemsStarsFearNatureInspiringDoubtSkyQuietAnxietySightBlueCalmImpartBlue Sky Author:Jonathan Edwards
“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