“Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony” IfsMenLongDesireWishPoorEnemyTeachRichQuietPossessionEvery ManEnjoymentProportionDestructiveConsumerismOverconsumptionRich Or PoorEnlargementPatrimony Book:Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius Source: Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius
“The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.” MindMomentsTeachQuietRevealing Author:Ajahn Chah
“In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their lives we want them to sit down and be quiet.” WantYearsFirstsChildrenWalksTeachQuietDown And Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.” HeartMayJoyTurnsNamesGivenTeachTearsPrayingSorrowQuietEternalDryEcstasyReverenceAlmightyWeepingResignationSpeechlessHandkerchiefsTears Of Sorrow Book:The Letters of Robert Schumann Source: The Letters of Robert Schumann
“At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him...Watch where God puts you into darkness, and when you are there keep your mouth shut. Are you in the dark just now in your circumstances, or in your life with God? Then remain quiet...When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light.” GivingHandsLightSongDarkWatchesTeachDarknessTaughtDisciplineCircumstancesQuietMessagesBirdMouthsShadowGods WillHeed Author:Oswald Chambers
“She was calm and quiet now with knowing what she had always known, what neither her parents nor Aunt Claire nor Frank nor anyone else had ever had to teach her: that if you wanted something to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.” IfsDoneWantedParentKnownTeachKnowingHonestQuietCalmFrankAuntClaire Author:Richard Yates
“Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?” TeachMastersQuietSubservience Book:Interview with the Vampire Source: Interview with the Vampire
“We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with cancer. ... We want to teach you how to quiet the yammer ... how you can create comfort, inside and outside, how you can get warm, how you can feed yourself. And even learn to get through silence. ... There is a wilderness inside you, and a banquet. Both. [p. 253]” WantStuffSilenceTeachComfortQuietOkayCancerWarmWildernessFraudDisgustingBanquetsNot OkayInside And Outside Author:Anne Lamott
“No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.” IfsKnowsMenWantYearsPersonsLongNamesWalksTeachTeacherQuietTravelHundredMirrorsWho You AreMedicineBraveGlassesMilesBitterAbout YourselfGreat Teacher Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.” MovingSpiritTeachKindnessQuietAngelExcellenceCloudsUrgesManhoodGentlenessArrangingWords Of Kindness Author:Pat Conroy