Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the… — Bella Bathurst Copy Share Image
Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
“Silence is the language of the cosmos. From the smallest stone to the sun itself, they all communicate through silence, greatly rich… — Anu Lal Copy Share Image
“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence. — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Then he realised (in some odd way) that the silence was rather a living silence than a dead one.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Only a man of inner silences becomes a creator. And we need more and more creative people in the world. Their very… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with divine pleasure.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Just as life is made up of day and night, and song is made up of music and silence, friendships, because they… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Go deep into meditation. and be meditation I mean silence, awareness, witnessing. You can meditate any time of the day, you can… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“be sure of having used to the full all that is communicated by immobility and silence.” — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part,… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Walter Mignolo terms and articulates _critical cosmopolitanism, juxtaposing it with globalization, which is a process of "the homogeneity of the planet from… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
He had on bunny slippers. These had fangs. They all stared at them in silence for about a heartbeat, and then Shane… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image