#quiet

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#back #day #depressed #every #every day

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#colleagues #culture #even #fame #fulfilled

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. ↗

— Ann Landers

#bad #bad times #caught #confidence #fire

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away. ↗

— Doug Larson

#knocks #most #opportunity #opportunity knocks #quietly

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#act #anew #case #difficulty #dogmas

I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate. ↗

— Laura Linney

#better #concentrate #i #i can #me

I've always been quiet, more of an observer. ↗

— Isabel Lucas

#been #i #more #observer #quiet

I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference. ↗

— Ali MacGraw

#i #makes #person #quiet #want

I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing. ↗