Bryan Stevenson
Lawyer, Author
"Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet."
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Quiet
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Joyce Meyer
Author, Speaker
"Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart."
Ramana Maharshi
Spiritual Teacher
"You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?' This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise."
Howard Hughes
Aviator, Businessman
"Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies."
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"Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments."
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"Your soul - that inner quiet space - is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction."
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"Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye."
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"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly."
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"I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged."
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"I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm."
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"Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house."
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"Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed."
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"I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly."
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"You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes."
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"Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God."
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"Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there."
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"My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet."
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"I was quiet but I was not blind."
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"If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'."
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"You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart."
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"Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere"
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"Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world."
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"I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me."
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"To the quiet mind all things are possible."
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