"Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out."

-- Lech Walesa

#Fall Quotes #Silence Quotes #Veils Quotes

“Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?”

Source : Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.28, Atlantic Books Ltd
“A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of awareness, both individually and collectively... As long as our thinking is governed by industrial, "machine age" metaphors such as control, predicatbility, and "faster is better", we will continue to re-create institutions as we have, despite their increasing disharmony with the larger world.”
“Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a "stained-glass" image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are experiencing as prayer and so condemn themselves for not praying.”
“No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.”
“Get shot down cuz your over zealous, play hard to get and females get jealous.”
“Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.”

Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1859). “Beulah”, p.140
“For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.”
“The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.”

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