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Franz Kafka

You need not do anything. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, just wait. And you need not even wait. Just become quiet and still and solitary and the world will offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

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Francis Bacon

Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

Kill | Men | Patience | Soul |

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George Bernard Shaw

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

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George Santayana

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

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Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Eternity | Kill | Time |

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Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Desperation | Men | Quiet | Resignation |

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Henry Miller, aka Henry Valentine Miller

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

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Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Eternity | Kill | Time |

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John Lyly or Lilly or Lylie

Nature hath giuen no man a country, no more than she hath a house or lands... and the same Moone shined, whereby he noted that euery place was a country to a wise man, and al parts a pallace to a quiet mind.

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John Milton

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

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John Steinbeck, fully John Ernst Steinbeck

A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.

Kill | Soul |

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John Ruskin

Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life, the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.

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John Ruskin

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

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Joseph Addison

One of the most important, but one of the most difficult things to a powerful mind is to be its own master; a pond may lay quiet in a plain, but a lake wants mountains to compass and hold it in.

Important | Mind | Quiet | Wants |

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Joseph Chilton Pearce, aka Joe

A society – the product of socialization – is made of spontaneous nurturing and love, while culture can be quiet hate, which can lead, sooner or later, to a child’s subtle or flagrant rebellion.

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Joseph Chilton Pearce, aka Joe

No media project succeeds based on “good news only” because good news does not trigger our alert system. Anything good indicates a safe space, the quiet background against which events can play out. The enculturated mind is cued to respond to the negative as a point of focus, which largely screens out or ignores a quiet stable base, and, because it sharpens and maintains our alert awareness, we actually begin to look for the negative.

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Kahlil Gibran

Love joins our present with the past and the future... Love is a divine knowledge that enables men to see as much as the gods... Love is a blinding mist that keeps the soul from discerning the secret of existence, so that the heart sees only trembling phantoms of desire among the hills, and hears only echoes of cries from voiceless valleys... Love is the rest of the body in the quiet of the grave, the tranquillity of the soul in the depth of Eternity... And so, all who passed spoke of Love as the image of their hopes and frustrations, leaving it a mystery as before.

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