Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Beginning therapists must learn that there are times to sit in silence, sometimes in silent communion, sometimes simply while waiting for patients'… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays,… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
There is an old proverb to the effect that 'all those who open their mouths, close their eyes!' The purpose of silence… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Always more, always hungrily scratching for more. But there were times, quiet moments, when our mother was sleeping, when she hadn’t slept… — Justin Torres Copy Share Image
The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
“Silence, along with the attention it fosters, is our anchor to the present, to the here and now.” — Anne D. LeClaire Copy Share Image
Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“Space is as important as content, and silence as important as singing. Our music and art should be filled with more beauty,… — Martin Smith Copy Share Image
“There is a silence in empty houses that is unique... People have left and taken all the noise with them.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
[S]he leans into this guy and rocks her head like I’m making this music for her, when if I could, I would… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image