#quiet

Build a House for men and birds. Sit with them and play music. For a day, for just one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace, my friend, into your beautiful eyes. ↗

— Hafiz

#peace #quiet #beauty

So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#i #i do #life #live #mainly

‎"The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them... ↗

— Enrich M. Remarque

#death-and-dying #war #death

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#am #any #art #ask #aware

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#country #few #lonely #many #people

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#art #exhausted #generally #great #her

One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#comfortable #confidence #dedicated #father #friend

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. ↗

— Anne Frank

#alone #because #best #does #feel

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#cambridge #corner #grow #i #quietly

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