St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
“If you dont speak, they will know you know more than you're telling them. And if they know that, they'll find a… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“ Listen for somebody trying to talk to you… (Silence) This from that very pit of night, naked in the wasteland, the… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion.… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre.… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Branches grew from his hands, his hair. His thoughts tangled like roots in the ground. He strained upward. Pitch ran like tears… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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“Today a great silence reigns on earth, a great silence and a great stillness. A great stillness because the King is asleep.… — Liturgy of the Hours Copy Share Image
Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“I wanted to scream as I stood there, my toes hanging over the edge of the dock. I wanted to let a… — Keary Taylor Copy Share Image
“Walls are more than stone and mortar. They are silent sentinels, their eyes following every movement, their mouths sealed yet harboring countless… — Monika Ajay Kaul Copy Share Image
In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth... Deeper reflection helps… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Bees were busy, or at least endeavouring to look and sound busy, in the thyme by the trackside. Cloud shadows flickered over… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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“Solitude, at first is scary. All you have is yourself. After a while its comforting, it knows the real you and cant… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
“We start home, his hand on my leg again and my hand over his. We are quiet, but this time it's the… — Brad Barkley Copy Share Image
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“…And you’re acting like I should be able to read something in your silence. The problem is that speech needs periods of… — wildbow Copy Share Image
“We don't have to go back to my place, Angel. I can take you home, if that's what you want. Or, if… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“They’re so silent!” I said. “Yeah man, you know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“We who live in the civilized world are accustomed to a background roar that never goes away. It is the pounding of… — Pirate Lanford Copy Share Image
To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Let’s live suddenly without thinking. Let’s live like the light that kills. And let’s as silence, because Whirl’s after all: (after me)… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
I think the truest things come from silence, but everything's always so clogged up with noise. If everything falls away, and you… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
“All my life I have longed to be alone in a place like this. Even when everything was going well, as it… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving,… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
“In fact, in order that we may never know ourselves, we hate silence and solitariness. Lest our conscience should carry on with… — Venerable Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Because sometimes there's more worth in silence than noise. Sometimes everything you need to know is contained in that small quiet space.… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
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We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
People often ask me why I continue to speak out if it's hurting my family. But that's exactly why I speak out.… — Enes Kanter Copy Share Image
[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
![“I thought it would be quieter here.” [Anna] hadn’t meant to say anything, but the noise startled her. “The wind in the trees,” Bran said. “And there are some birds that stay year-round. Sometimes when the wind is still and the cold is upon us, the quiet is so deep you can feel it in your bones.” quote by Patricia Briggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e65/patricia-briggs-571_anna-cornick_i-thought-it-would-be-quieter-here-anna_2444303.jpg)
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