We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have named this circle God. We might have given it any other… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
“When I had lain awake a little awhile, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems, began to make themselves audible. The closet… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“Silence reigned. Well, except for Mallory's thundering heartbeat. She was in an attic loft, flat beneath her Mr. Wrong. Her common sense… — Jill Shalvis Copy Share Image
“Intuition is the language of silence, the Existential language. The word "in-tuition" means to listen within yourself. Intuition is the silent voice… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Silence is a mirror. So faithful, and yet so unexpected, is the relection it can throw back at men that they will… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“They lived on the even tenor found advisable in the experience of old families of the Western world, brought up rather than… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I had the privilege of hearing incredibly brave women standing up to tell their stories - harrowing stories that reduced many of… — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a… — Ted Loder Copy Share Image
My sister is also retarded. Across the board. She's a one hundred per cent, honest to goodness, born that way retard. I… — Bonnie McFarlane Copy Share Image
When you are aware of space, you are not really aware of anything, except awareness itself - the inner space of consciousness.… — Eckhart Tolle 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
“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
Silently a flower blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the… — Zenkei Shibayama Copy Share Image
I pictured the two of them alone. Perhaps showering together, as Rome and I liked to do. My stomach clenched painfully, amusement… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
“In this land I have made myself sick with silence In this land I have wandered, lost In this land I hunkered… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
“Syrian monk, Isaac of Niniveh: Many are avidly seeking but they alone find who remain in continual silence. … Every man who… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American… — Gordon Cooper 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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