“My reality is that God speaks to you every day. There's an inner voice, and when you hear it, you get a little tingle in your medulla oblongata at the back of your neck, a little shiver, and at two o'clock in the morning, everything's really quiet and you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: Write this down. It is just an inner voice, and you trust it. That voice will never take you to the desert.” WritingLittlesTwoRealitySpeakVoiceMorningQuietDesertClockNecksCandleInner VoiceShiverChantingIncense Author:Carlos Santana
“I believe in the invisible. I do not believe in the definitive reality of things around us. For me, reality is the intuition and the imagination and the quiet voice inside my head that says: isn't that extraordinary? The things in our lives are the shadows of reality, just as we ourselves are shadows.” BelieveRealityI BelieveVoiceImaginationOur LivesQuietShadowExtraordinaryI Believe InIntuitionInvisibleQuiet Voice Author:Duane Michals
“In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it's in their self-interest to have a more stable Middle East because trade enriches us all.” ShouldSelfRealityInterestMiddleQuietTradeEastConvinceMiddle EastStableDiplomacySelf Interest Author:Rand Paul
“Late at night, when everyone is quiet, sit alone and gaze into the mind; then you notice illusion ending and reality appearing. You gain a great sense of potential in this every time. Once you have noticed reality appearing yet find that illusion is hard to escape, you also find yourself greatly humbled.” MindHardRealityNightQuietLateIllusionGainsTaoismFinding YourselfAppearing Author:Zicheng Hong
“"Marginalized others" have access to other ways of knowing, and therefore to deeper, more authentic truths about human reality. They can share that knowledge by speaking about their lived experience while in a safe space. But to provide this kind of safety, members of privileged groups, i.e. white, able-bodied, cis-gendered middle class men, must keep quiet.” MenWayHumansKindRealityAbleSpaceWhiteClassKnowingGroupsShareMiddleQuietSafeMembersSafetyDeeperAccessMiddle ClassPrivilegedMarginalizedSafe Space Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“There were times when I was frustrated, and cried and felt helpless, but the reality in Ethiopia is that you don't have much of an option. You either keep quiet or you get added to the list of people being jailed or killed.” PeopleRealityFeltQuietListsCriedFrustratedHelplessEthiopia Author:Feyisa Lilesa
“One of the reasons that people are so fascinated by Jared Kushner is that he has had no role at all in anything close to politics up to this point I mean much like his father-in-law, and he's just such an unknown figure. I mean at least we knew Donald Trump as a reality television star and as a very bombastic figure. But Jared is so quiet, and he's so uninterested in courting press attention.” PeopleMeanReasonRealityLawFatherStarsAttentionRolesFiguresTelevisionTrumpQuietPressesFascinatedIn-lawsReality TelevisionUninterestedBombasticFather In Law Author:Sarah Ellison
“The reality is that most of us are rarely, if ever, alone with our own minds and souls. Even when we do find a few minutes of quiet, we're driven to check our devices for emails, texts, etc.” MindSoulRealityQuietDriven Author:Tricia Rhodes
“Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.” TwoRealityOur LivesQuietDramaticSufficientDecayExplosionsGhastly Author:Anne Roiphe
“Childhood romances always seem so real, so enduring, when we are separated from the object of our affection. But usually, when we return, we find that our dreams and memories quiet surpassed reality. -Lady Anne, Whitney's aunt” RealDreamRealitySeemsRomanceMemoriesChildhoodObjectsReturnQuietEndureAffectionOur DreamsAuntWhitney Author:Judith McNaught
“Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama. So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.” PeopleMindPersonsSelfRealitySeemsMightRememberFacesNextEnergyVoiceEffortRichDesignBearsDramaCostQuietAppearanceAuthenticityLandscapeHatsNext TimeEquationsSonnetComposingPhysical HealthAloofExtrovertsSelf ContainedDeploying Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking