“He has learned that silence means the absolute balance of the body, spirit and soul. The man who preserves his unity will… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“For a while, we just ate like that, a sick old man, a healthy, younger man, both absorbing the quiet of the… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“For a moment the highlander lay quietly and studied the room in silent leisure, allowing the sleep to disperse and his rested… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement.… — Pawel Pawlikowski Copy Share Image
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Silence was my sister's weapon. When people hurt or angered her, she never got loud like Mom or mean and smart-ass like… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share Image
“All round me are words, and words and words, They grow on me like leaves, they never Seem to stop their slow… — Kamala Suraiyya Das Copy Share Image
“The house gulped in a big breath of fresh air, like some frantic drowning thing breaking the water's surface and gasping for… — Rachel Autumn Deering Copy Share Image
If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
“Hey, turn down the volume on your “How To Make Love Like Lucifer Hand Guide Volume II” audio book a little bit.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“It is not speaking that breaks our silence, but the anxiety to be heard. The words of the proud man impose silence… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Silence does not always imply consent. Sometimes it simply means that the silent one has opted out of a discussion with idiots.” — Lex Allen Copy Share Image
I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music. My definition of music is "organizing sound and silence into emotion,"… — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
“To read, write, draw, paint, meditate, yoga, create and find that silence is a really good thing… I am not an author...” — Mirtha Dominguez Copy Share Image
There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
If you do not yet know where you fit, I suggest you try seeking it in receptive silence. I used to walk… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I remember having a friend overnight, and lots of giggling after the lights were out. And seemingly long silences followed by “Are… — Joe Brainard Copy Share Image
Instead of using whispers and gossip that can cause hurt and pain while serving no good purpose,we should do better to restrain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You're the only one who can leave me completely breathless even when there's nothing but silence between us. It's 'like I can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age.… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“He was sunk beneath seas of silence; and his name, which would once have caught his notice above the howling of a… — H.P Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“A brief rustling that broke off short, as if startled at itself, then deadly silence, that agonising, watchful hush, fraught with its… — Gustav Meyrink Copy Share Image
Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps? — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
“But there was only that silence, as in the five or ten minutes before a vicious thundersquall strikes, when the purple heads… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
