Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when… — Vicki Covington Copy Share Image
come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it… — Ihab Hassan Copy Share Image
I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“The room was filled with a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence...” — Yôko Ogawa Copy Share Image
The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“They walked on in silence. Katie's heart was beating with a rapidity that forbade speech. Nothing like this very direct young man… — P.G. Wodehouse 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… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The sound of silence grows, every minute feels like a hour, every hour feels like a day, as I sit in in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The silence lingers and we soak it up like a good steam. Men like silence. We believe in it. We crave it.… — Alan Eisenstock Copy Share Image
“Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart… — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
But for me I think it's just about taking that time of reflection and contemplation. That's probably my process in every decision… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
“It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Only the deceased could hear this quietness, he thought; no wonder they were tossing and turning in their graves seven feet under… — Nina Copy Share Image
“And isn’t silence, in its way, a good sign? That everything is well, that the ship is still steaming safely away from… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Sometimes we maintain silence to protect a beautiful relation, but what we forget is, too much of silence can create distance in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Buddhada was a man of few words. You can see the importance of silence in his cinema. There are long stretches of… — Sameera Reddy Copy Share Image
Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right… — Yogaswami Copy Share Image
“Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Silence is my defense. The protector whom I trust. A sturdy shield, A loyal safe-keeper, A sentinel, impassable. Silence is my refuge.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Actually, I think it's the opposite. We know each other so well there isn't anything left to say. Sometimes it's nice just… — Benjamin Wood Copy Share Image
Tintinnabulation is like this. Here I am alone with silence. I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is… — Arvo Part Copy Share Image
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I noticed that in Tokyo people didn’t smell. It was funny. I couldn’t smell them, and they didn’t say very much: the… — Mo Hayder Copy Share Image
Prayer within breath is silence, love within infinity is silence, Wisdom without word is silence, compassion without aim is silence, action without… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“Silence is a space of “becoming,” a span between commotion and interior stillness, a canvas that reveals the outlines of our memories… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Let not the tongue give utterance to the evil that is in thine heart, but command thy tongue to be silent until… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“My silence was my salvation; the silence of years of trying to say something without much understanding; the silence of desperate action.… — Njabulo Ndebele Copy Share Image
I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have… — Kevin Harvick Copy Share Image
People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There can never silence or dead air so you're constantly having to talk about something even if in your head you're like… — Angela Yee Copy Share Image
When you are exposed to others' negativity, you do not need to respond. You can choose to put your attention elsewhere and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
