“Beginning therapists must learn that there are times to sit in silence, sometimes in silent communion, sometimes simply while waiting for patients'… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Silence wrapped around us as time itself held its breath, quietly coaxing us to that secret place of sighs and whispers where… — V.M.K. Fewings Copy Share Image
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Nothing to Say, Nothing to Write, Nothing to Send, But. I Believe that You Will Listen, Read, and Receive My Feelings in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
“What is silence? It is a bridge to the land of wisdom! What is fearless and free mind? It is a bridge… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence. I knew perfectly well the cars were… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The house lights go off and the footlights come on. Even the chattiest stop chattering as they wait in darkness for the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“one, with fixed blinds inserted, in place of upper panels. The isolated subterraneousness of the cabin made a certain humming silence to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“It has struck me that people seldom listen to the meaning of underlying words.There are only a few people who recognize the… — Esther Verhoef Copy Share Image
And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that… — Mary Caroline Richards Copy Share Image
“To lose such an important listener in life is like losing my shadow. With no shadow, does a person truly exist under… — Reeve Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I've always worked a lot with silence in my films. It forces the audience to concentrate on what they're seeing, because silence… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
Sometimes silence is the loudest noise! People are asking me how I manage to deal with things so easily, the answer is;… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in… — Frances Densmore Copy Share Image
I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
I suppose he'll just have to do," she amended. "You'll have to suffer in silence with your male model...I feel for you."… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
“Because it is so hard, some people wait until they are in their thirties, forties, fifties, or even older before breaking their… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
Zidane is a top player and he knows that if players do not perform, there needs to be a little bit of… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
How can a heart suffer your deepest thoughts and yet only speak the unmoving, inconsequential utterances of abject silence? — Anne Austin Copy Share Image
Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things;… — Igor Levit Copy Share Image
“Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator’s first line of defense. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Another silence for the record books. Then he sighs. "I know. It's crazy. I feel like --" He stops himself. He suddenly… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a… — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to… — Pindar Copy Share Image
“Experience has taught me that there are some situations in which it's better to keep quiet. That is, I tried to keep… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“To put it bluntly but also imploringly: we Christians need more silence in our services and liturgies. Just how this might be… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
![“...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his…” quote by Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/02a/gillian-flynn-316_abuse_my-father-was-a-mid-level-phonecompany-m_2788017.jpg)
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