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"True silence is the rest of the mind;
it is to the spirit what sleep is to the
body, nourishment and refreshment."
"Silence is the true friend that never
betrays."
"An inability to stay quiet is one of
the most conspicuous failings of
mankind."
"Silence is a source of great strength."
"Silence is the universal refuge, the
sequel to all dull discourses and all
foolish acts, a balm to our every
chagrin, as welcome after satiety as
after disappointment."
"Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to
the shibboleths of promotion, public
relations, and market research, society
is suspicious of those who value
silence."
"The Arctic expresses the sum of all
wisdom: Silence."
"Soon silence will have passed into
legend. Man has turned his back on
silence. Day after day he invents
machines and devices that increase noise
and distract humanity from the essence
of life, contemplation, meditation...
tooting, howling, screeching, booming,
crashing, whistling, grinding, and
trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety
subsides. His inhuman void spreads
monstrously like a gray vegetation."
"I have often lamented that we cannot
close our ears with as much ease as we
can our eyes."
"Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy
desperation."
"Now all my teachers are dead except
silence."
"The silence depressed me. It wasn't
the silence of silence. It was my own
silence."
"We listen too much to the telephone and
we listen too little to nature. The wind
is one of my sounds. A lonely sound,
perhaps, but soothing. Everybody should
have his personal sounds to listen
for—sounds that will make him
exhilarated and alive, or quiet and
calm... As a matter of fact, one of the
greatest sounds of them all—and to me it
is a sound—is utter, complete silence."
"All noise is waste. So cultivate
quietness in your speech, in your
thoughts, in your emotions. Speak
habitually low. Wait for attention and
then you low words will be charged with
dynamite."
"In the attitude of silence the soul
finds the path in an clearer light, and
what is elusive and deceptive resolves
itself into crystal clearness. Our life
is a long and arduous quest after
Truth."
"God's poet is silence! His song is
unspoken
"Silence is a fence around wisdom."
"The silent man is the best to listen
to."
"Silence is as deep as eternity; speech,
shallow as time."
"You hesitate to stab me with a word,
and know not - silence is the sharper
sword."
"Silence is medication for sorrow."
"To silence another, first be silent
yourself. "
"Silence was never written down."
"Silence is exhilarating at first - as
noise is - but there is a sweetness to
silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to
the sweetness of listening and the
velvet of sleep."
"You can hear the footsteps of God when
silence reigns in the mind."
"Not merely an absence of noise, Real
Silence begins when a reasonable being
withdraws from the noise in order to
find peace and order in his inner
sanctuary."
"Silence is a text easy to misread."
"Learn to get in touch with the silence
within yourself and know that everything
in this life has a purpose."
"Our greatest gift is the thunder of
Silence."
"Silence is more musical than any song."
"Nothing is more useful than silence." "Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles
"He who does not understand your silence
will probably not understand your
words."
"All my days have I grown up among the
Sages and I have found naught better for
a man than silence."
"Silence is a sounding thing, to one who
listens hungrily."
"Silence is the mother of truth."
"What shall I say to you? What can I
say better than silence is?"
"The deepest rivers make least din, the
silent soule doth most abound in care."
"Honk if you hate noise pollution."
"Her hearing was keener than his, and
she heard silences he was unaware of."
"We must have reasons for speech but we
need none for silence."
"Noise: a stench in the ear."
"If he who does not know kept silent,
discord would cease."
"There is no need to go to India or
anywhere else to find peace. You will
find that deep place of silence right in
your room, your garden or even your
bathtub."
"Silence is one of the hardest arguments
to refute."
"Keep watch over your mouth, lest it
bring you to grief."
"There are times when silence has the
loudest voice."
"If you can't get quiet enough to hear
yourself, your life is too loud."
"Silences make the real conversations
between friends. Not the saying but the
never needing to say is what counts."
"Let me silent be,
"The best answer to anger is silence. "
"The primary virtue is: hold your
tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is
close to God."
"Some days, we just need to turn the
quiet up."
"Let us be silent, that we may hear the
whispers of the gods."
"Words can make a deeper scar than
silence can heal."
"True
intelligence operates silently.
Stillness is where creativity and
solutions to problems are found."
"One of
the greatest sounds of them all - and to
me is a sound - is utter, compete
silence."
"What I
am looking for...is
an immobile movement, something which
would be the equivalent of what is
called the eloquence of silence, or what
St. John of the Cross, I think it was,
described with the term 'mute music'."
"After
silence, that which comes closest to
expressing the inexpressible is music."
"I
have learned silence from the talkative,
toleration from the intolerant, and
kindness from the unkind: yet, strangely
I am ungrateful to those teachers."
"Learn to
get in touch with the silence within
yourself, and learn that everything in
life has purpose. There are no
mistakes, no coincidences. All
events are blessings given to us to
learn from."
"When
words become unclear, I shall focus with
photographs. When images become
inadequate, I shall be content with
silence."
"A man is
known by the silence he keeps."
"The
temple of our purest thoughts is
silence."
"Saying
nothing sometimes says the most."
"A
properly kept silence is a beautiful
thing. It is nothing less than the
father of very wise thoughts."
"Words
are made of silver, but silence is made
of gold."
"Silence
is the genius of fools and one of the
virtues of the wise."
"Quiet
people have the loudest minds."
"My personal hobbies are reading,
listening to music, and silence."
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