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"The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."
"Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle."
"The more a person knows the less they talk. I shall cease speaking and endeavor to instill a large band of silence inside myself in order to forge a deeper and closer relationship with all of nature. Only when I attain absolute quietude shall I understand the supreme virtue of humanity and understand the meaning of both life and death. Only when I achieve absolute stillness shall I come to a perfect realization of the meaning of existence innate in all things."
"It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away."
"It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years."
"There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you."
Explore more quotes by Bryant McGill
"There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people."
"The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it."
"While the ingrates duke-it-out about the true God, you take each breath in holy gratitude."
"When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again."
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