"We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between."

-- Lyall Watson

#Silence Quotes #Trying Quotes #Succeed Quotes

“Maybe you have thought that doing... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass."”
“It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.”
“I never made a good movie.”
“My parents just tell me, â€˜If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do anything.â€™”
“The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along inâ€”as if heâ€™d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.”

Source : Denis Johnson (2012). “Train Dreams”, p.27, Granta Books
“Business can be a source of progressive change.”
“When the psychiatrist approves of a person's actions, he judges that person to have acted with "free choice"; when he disapproves,he judges him to have acted without "free choice." It is small wonder that people find "free choice" a confusing idea: "free choice" appears to refer to what the person being judged (often called the "patient") does, whereas it is actually what the person making the judgment (often a psychiatrist or other mental health worker) thinks.”
“I'm not worried about the weekend, I'm worried about Saturday.”

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