But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.

Meditation is your awakening. The moment you awake, sleep disappears and with it all the dreams, all the projections, all expectations, all desires. Suddenly…

— Rajneesh

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.

— Rumi

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

— Rumi

Carry your baggage towards silence , when you seek the signs of the way.

— Rumi

This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.

— Rumi

Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue. When red-haired girls scamper like roses over…

— Laurie Lee

“Silently a flower blooms, In silence if falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the flower, the…

— Lilli Jolgren Day

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

— Albert Camus

To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

— Francis Bacon

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic…

— Mark Twain

In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold…

— Ludwig von Mises

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

— Thomas Carlyle

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become…

— Francis Quarles