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“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded, then, is a return to these truths.”

May Has Beens Hard Play Values Force Challenges Progress Honesty Hard Work Depends Return Quiet Fairs Instruments Curiosity Loyalty Tolerance Inauguration Inaugural Fair Play

Author:Barack Obama

“That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.”

People May Children Long Real Play Values Space Cities Sun Quiet Taxes Europe Greed Long Ago Refuge Marvelous Estates Old People Great Cities Contractor Estate Taxes

Book:Fresh from the Laundry

Source: Fresh from the Laundry

“There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.”

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Book:Readings from Huxley

Source: Readings from Huxley

“When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one's thought is not a value, only a common practice.”

Thinking World Writing Whole Stories Values Easy Hours Common Practice Alive Solitude Quiet Letters Whole World Thoughtful Lap Inner Life

Author:Vivian Gornick

“The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to study; its extremes of squalor and of splendor do not stimulate, but sadden me; certain phases of its society I profoundly value, but would sacrifice them to the heaven of country quiet, if I had to choose between.”

“I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.”

Values Heaven Quiet My Time Thrive Me Alone Alone Time

Author:Anne Lamott

“In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.”

Ifs World Needs Certain Values Given Goal Half Focus Our Lives Amount Quiet Okay Western Just Being Western World Being Quiet

Author:Shakti Gawain

“In many other cultures, and certainly in the Eastern world, there's great value put on being, contemplating, and even withdrawing from the world at certain times or for certain periods of time. But we don't really have that in our culture, so it's difficult for many Westerners to learn how to sit down or lie down and just be quiet without going to sleep. We're just not trained to do it.”

World Lying Certain Values Culture Difficult Sleep Periods Quiet Down And Contemplating Eastern Going To Sleep Other Cultures Westerners Great Value Withdrawing

Author:Shakti Gawain

“And it is a quiet terrible thing, too, to discover the value of love this way [after loss] - when the object of love is no longer there, when love dies or goes away or changes. When it is too late.”

Way Values Dies Loss Love Is Objects Terrible Quiet Late Too Late Terrible Things Value Of Love

Author:Vera Nazarian

“Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.”

Certain Values Music Quiet Music Is Serene Great Music

Book:The Saga of the Century: The Fountain Overflows, This Real Night, and Cousin Rosamund

Source: The Saga of the Century: The Fountain Overflows, This Real Night, and Cousin Rosamund

“When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash - at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance.”

Knows Life Heart Children Moments Night Values Chance Vision Land Poet Quiet Bird Awakening Purity Emptiness Autumn Cosmic Solitary Evident Glimpse Awakened Frogs Ponds Newness Descending Grove

Author:Thomas Merton

“You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.”

Age Young Values Loses Quiet Repetition Young Age Losing Yourself

Author:Matthew Quick