#quietness

I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?' ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#campaign #cheerleader #considered #even #hearts

But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#forbidden #grief #happiness #inspirational #laws

Why, the club was just the quietest place in the world, a place where a woman could run in to brush her hair and wash her hands, and change her library book, and have a cup of tea. ↗

— Kathleen Thompson Norris

#tea #women #change

They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#beer #confession #courage #drinking #quietness

There's quiet because you don't need to say anything, and then there's quiet because you don't want to say something. --Marisol ↗

— Francisco X. Stork

#death

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#quietness #life

Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever. ↗

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

#forbearance #forever #quietness #root

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#being #commission #compulsion #divine #feel

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#confidence #cut #god #great #his

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat. ↗

— John Selden

#buy #family #just #king #made