“There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.”

“Quiet, the Unicorn,
In contemplation stilled,
With acceptance filled;
Quiet, save for his horn;
Alive in his horn;
Horizontally,
In captivity;
Perpendicularly,
Free.”

“Nature shows us its artistic beauty that sciences explain the hows and religions contemplate the whys.”

“Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.”

“Most men lead lives of quiet aspiration.”

“You've been quiet lately… but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.”

“something almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea”

“After reading and considering the works of Babhravya and other ancient authors, and thinking over the meaning of the rules given by them, this treatise [Kama Sutra] was composed, according to the precepts of the Holy Writ, for the benefit of the world,… while leading the life of a religious student at Benares, and wholly engaged in the contemplation of the Deity. This work is not to be used merely as an instrument for satisfying our desires…”

“Compared with the greatest poets, he may be said to be the poet of unpoetical natures, possessed of quiet and contemplative tastes. But unpoetical natures are precisely those which require poetic cultivation. This cultivation Wordsworth is much more fitted to give, than poets who are intrinsically far more poets than he.”

“When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars.”