#thoughtful

The Chair I’m writing to you, who made the archaic wooden chair look like a throne while you sat on it. Amidst your absence, I choose to sit on the floor, which is dusty as a dry Kansas day. I am stoic as a statue of Buddha, not wanting to bother the old wooden chair, which has been silent now for months. In this sunlit moment I think of you. I can still picture you sitting there-- your forehead wrinkled like an un-ironed shirt, the light splashed on your face, like holy water from St. Joseph’s. The chair, with rounded curves like that of a full-figured woman, seems as mellow as a monk in prayer. The breeze blows from beyond the curtains, as if your spirit has come back to rest. Now a cloud passes overhead, and I hush, waiting to hear what rests so heavily on the chair’s lumbering mind. Do not interrupt, even if the wind offers to carry your raspy voice like a wispy cloud. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#chair #insightful #metaphor #peaceful #pensive

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#libraries #thoughtful #inspirational

You have only one life, make the most of it ↗

— Louis Sachar

#life

Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie ↗

— Sharon Creech

#movies

I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am. ↗

— Howard Dean

#committed #curious #deeply #environment #i

Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#any #apparent #becoming #cannot #done

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#earnest #footing #people #public #shaky

It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order. ↗

— Asa Gray

#attitude #beliefs #believers #christian #consider

There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#across #care #country #democrat #different

I wasn't a smart kid in terms of numbers, but, I told them, 'I'm a thoughtful, responsible guy.' ↗

— Richard Hanna

#i #kid #numbers #responsible #smart