“Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep quiet when nothing is needed - to be silent, not to say anything. When all these dimensions are available, there is freedom.” MeanSometimesNeededQuietSilentAvailableDimensionsCapabilitySay Anything Author:Rajneesh
“When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and this guy there said, "You're going to be enlightened at the end of this week, that's my goal." I was the engineer, so I was recording everything at it was happening, but I was also participating, because I felt like it. So at the end of it, I did understand what enlightenment was, one-hundred percent.” SaidEndsGuyFeltGoalWeekQuietHappeningsEnlightenmentPercentHundredEnlightenedEngineersSay AnythingRetreatThis GuyParticipating Author:Larkin Grimm
“The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.” PeopleShouldProblemRememberQuietCalmMessNervesPoliteSay AnythingTrumpets Author:Wynton Marsalis
“It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?” WantFiveQuietBirdIntelligentSupposed To BeSay AnythingSlaughterMassacresTeesSlaughterhousesSlaughterhouse FiveSlaughterhouse 5Slaughter House 5Slaughter House Five Book:SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
“Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything. Give no story. Make no claim. Where you can live at the edge of your skin for as long as you wish.” GivingLongStoriesUseHandsDesireHeavenWishRoomsColorComfortQuietSkinsClaimsEdgesObviousHumbleWideCakeGrandfatherSay AnythingSimplestMy GrandfatherPillowQuiltsPatchworkQuiet RoomPatchwork Quilt Book:The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic
“So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.” HandsRoomsColorQuietObviousBonesCakeSay AnythingPillowQuiltsPatchworkLovely BonesQuiet RoomPatchwork Quilt Book:The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic
“We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there`s no need to talk, or because it takes time to distill what we've read before we can say anything. Silence is our guarantee of intimacy. We might have finished reading but we`re still living the book.” NeedsStillsBookMightReadingSecretSilenceQuietRemainsFinishedIntimacyEnjoymentGuaranteesTake TimeSay AnythingSilence IsGuardedIt Takes TimeJealously Author:Daniel Pennac