#whisper

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now. ↗

— Mario Batali

#i do #kids #lean #listen #make

I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#became #biography #circle #closed #could

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#believe #people #some #some people #them

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#because #censorship #collapse #conclusion #even

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#down #guess #had #i #life

Pagan paths, of which there are many, more often than not, are based upon an acknowledgement of a Divine presence within nature, as acknowledged by the pre-Christian peoples of these Islands and Northern Europe more than 1500 years ago. ↗

— Carole Carlton

#carole-carlton #divine-presence #imbolc #irish-celts #lughnasadh

I nodded, appreciating the wisdom of her words.‘Yellow is the colour of early spring,’ she said, ‘just look at your garden!’ She gestured towards the borders, which were full of primulas, crocuses and daffodils. ‘The most cheerful of colours,’ she continued, ‘almost reflective in its nature and it is of course the colour of the mind.’ ‘That’s why we surround ourselves with it!’ laughed Phyllis, ‘in the hope that its properties will rub off.’‘Nonsense dear,’ said Mrs Darley dismissively, ‘Yellow light simply encourages us to think more positively. It lifts our spirits and raises our self-esteem in time for summer.’I immediately made a mental note to surround myself with the colour of the season and, like Phyllis, hoped that some of its properties would rub off on me. ↗

— Carole Carlton

#carole-carlton #imbolc #irish-celts #lughnasadh #moon-magic

A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper. ↗

— Marcel Pagnol

#secret #something #told #whisper

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#maternal #me #more #nature #soothing

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#good #i #like #says #whispers