“It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
The longer I stand here, the louder the silence. I know that you're gone, but sometimes I swear that I hear your… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
“You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Pertrakis.I have never heard a more… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Reading was what I needed to beat back all that noise and silence, those horrible silences. . . .An ink pen was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meditation is the only way you can grow. Because when you meditate, you are in silence, you are in thoughtless awareness. Then… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Speak less to people whom u love most… Because if they cant understand ur silence… They can never understand your words… — Babloo Copy Share Image
“Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
“The viewless air seemed to be flocking with hidden listeners. The very clearness and the crystal silence were their ambush. He alone… — Walter de la Mare Copy Share Image
“ The Listeners 'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed… — Walter de la Mare Copy Share Image
One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
“The sound is gone. There's nothing left but the insomniac throbbing of crickets. Crickets in the garden, the courtyard, the back courtyard.… — Rosario Castellanos Copy Share Image
Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul,… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Some have given up the expectation of meeting genuine, ‘heartfelt’ people and prefer to retire to a mute world, where fish, at… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching… — Solomon Ibn Gabirol Copy Share Image
We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. Then, at the rim of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A moment of silence, then Blake’s voice crackled through static, “Can’t—” The static sounded suspiciously like crinkling paper. “Hear—” More “static” then,… — A&E Kirk Copy Share Image
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no:… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do. — Amy Goodman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the most dangerous thing for kids is the silence that allows them to construct their own stories—stories that almost always cast… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The silence isn't so bad 'Til I look at my hands and feel sad 'Cause the spaces between my fingers Are right… — Owl City Copy Share Image
“In a world dominated by extroverts and exhibitionism, the quiet ones make the loudest impact with their silence – it's their superpower” — Brahmanand Savanth Copy Share Image
Silence is so important when you're working, You must have periods where you don't hear anything, just to reflect on you've already… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
“Talks about the Self (Atma) and absolute Self (Parmatma) have no strain of worldly interactions in them. The Lord (Mahavira) has referred… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share Image
In fact, they didn't talk much at all, but they spent time together, each in his own abyss, held safe and tight… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“I went upstairs to my room. Momentarily I felt a sense of calm, almost acceptance. Rest beyond the river. I knew now… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
“It is gone, the heart is gone, the head is gone, no one feels anything, asks anything, seeks anything, says anything, hears… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream... — Mooji Copy Share Image
Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted… — Chris Witty Copy Share Image
He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The Word LISTEN Contains the same letters as SILENT. Listen to GOD in the Silence of your Heart and you'll know HIS… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
