Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust. God watches them play and forgets the priest.
I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.
-Ravi Zacharias
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
-Jodi Picoult
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
-Thomas Merton