A quote from An Army at Dawn

So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.

“Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.59

"When the well is dry, they know the worth of water."

“What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt—it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.”—Hal Boyle. There is so much going on in a day, actions and distractions, it’s easy to get caught up and lose your vision. This quote brings me right back to where I want to be. It keeps me grounde

“Rivers,” Publilius Syrus reminds us with an epigram, “are easiest to cross at their source.”

“I begin to speak,” Cato once explained, “only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid.”