#quiet

Rooms don't change, ornaments stand where you place them: only the heart decays. ↗

— Graham Greene

#change

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

I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and told his buddy that he could convince people that librarians needed to be trained in the art of librarianship. Sadly, this is not the case; its roots are a bit more academic. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#library #library-books #quiet-please #art

A quiet kid is a good kid. But a quiet and invisible kid is an even better kid. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#invisible #kid #quiet #life

It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#dreams

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ↗

— Charles William Eliot

#books #constant #counselors #friends #most

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#quiet #crazy

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#need #quiet #remember #than #them

Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled with conversation or thought bubbles or laughter or sidelong glances. Everyone was sleeping, all of their ideas and hopes and hidden agendas entangled in the dream world, leaving this world clear and crisp and cold as a bottle of milk in the fridge. ↗

— Reif Larsen

#quiet #dreams

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. ↗

— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#personal-transformation #quiet-mind #self-help #soul #spiritual-life