“Mind your strength! Let people know that you are strong and let them see how strong you are, and who or what… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of the snowshoe… — Grey Owl Copy Share Image
“The devil invites mankind to rebellion and disorder. With his litany of subterfuges, he sows discord and incites us to pour out… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
The power of quiet is great. It generates the same feelings in everything one encounters. It vibrates with the cosmic rhythm of… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
“ You see my five fingers, but somebody can see the five gaps between my fingers. Ordinarily you will not see the… — Osho Copy Share Image
A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying, I don't know how to… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our… — Betty Eadie Copy Share Image
A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
.. every single corner and aspect of our lives, every single choice, will be different if we take the invitation of this… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I shut my ears, averted my eyes, turning instead to what I thought at the time was pain's antidote: silence. I was… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was I converted Dad’s last voice message into Morse code,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The New Man means to develop all the three dimensions of being, all the three doors to God: the head, the dimension… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Once I knew nothing about McKay and now I knew everything about him. This seemed as good as any reason for not… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Infuriated by the sniping from within his own administration and encouraged by Federalist partisans, Washington could have used the powers of his… — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“Shortly before ten o'clock the stillness of the air grew quite oppressive, and the silence was so marked that the bleating of… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“I would take the solace of a forest over the hustle of London’s streets any day. Just listen to the silence. My… — Sarah E. Ladd Copy Share Image
Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“We’re asking you to recode silence and violence as signs that people are feeling unsafe. We’re asking you to fight your natural… — Kerry Patterson Copy Share Image
But ordinarily you think otherwise: you think if you are silent you will be sad. Ordinarily you think, how can you avoid… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I have come to learn, that when people of money and power organize to set upon to break a person they seek… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
“The silence seemed to gain weight between us, his face turned hard, and his lips became a thin, grim line. He pushed… — L.J. Kentowski Copy Share Image
To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long: To look at this green… — John Moffitt Copy Share Image
In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended. In Illumination, all things appear as is. Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping.… — Sheng-yen Copy Share Image
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses… — Tom Sturridge Copy Share Image
“And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Some persons, when they hear of the prayer of silence, falsely imagine that the soul remains stupid, dead, and inactive. But unquestionably,… — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
How I wish that all men and women of good will would look to the Cross if only for a moment! There,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The Outing An outburst of anger near the road, a refusal to speak on the path, a silence in the pine woods,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“Absolute silence might well be, in some instances, our greatest act of worship. Tozer referred to our experiencing a “breathless silence” when… — Dick Eastman Copy Share Image
“I wonder what's all that noise, and running backwards and forwards for, above stairs, quoth my father, addressing himself, after an hour… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The Little Mute Boy The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“It was monks who first taught the art of reading in silence. During the Dark Ages. Augustine, perhaps, was first. And silence… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“The doctor from the mainland came and went. Silence settled over the island again, like a displaced curtain falling back in thickened,… — Evangeline Walton Copy Share Image