Pillar 29 lines

Quiet Power

Restraint, boundaries, and the strength nobody applauds.

The loudest version of strength is usually the cheapest. Quiet Power is the other kind — the no you said without explaining it, the purchase you did not make, the reaction you kept to yourself.

None of it photographs well. That is the point. These lines are about the discipline that has no audience and therefore no reward except the person it slowly turns you into.