“The New Man means to develop all the three dimensions of being, all the three doors to God: the head, the dimension… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“I shut my ears, averted my eyes, turning instead to what I thought at the time was pain's antidote: silence. I was… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was I converted Dad’s last voice message into Morse code,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
.. every single corner and aspect of our lives, every single choice, will be different if we take the invitation of this… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“I would take the solace of a forest over the hustle of London’s streets any day. Just listen to the silence. My… — Sarah E. Ladd Copy Share Image
“Shortly before ten o'clock the stillness of the air grew quite oppressive, and the silence was so marked that the bleating of… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“Once I knew nothing about McKay and now I knew everything about him. This seemed as good as any reason for not… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Infuriated by the sniping from within his own administration and encouraged by Federalist partisans, Washington could have used the powers of his… — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“APOSIOPESIS (APOSIOPE'SIS) n.s.[ from after, and rixp to be silent.] A form of speech, by which the speaker, through some affection, as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Our young people, raised under the old rules of courtesy, never indulged in the present habit of talking incessantly and all at… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence.… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“Ah, yes, the departmental shrink. And in the silence that followed, he knew everyone was waiting for him to groan, but he… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“A lump forms in my throat as the truth hits me. Hard. “That’s why people are speaking out, huh? Because it won’t… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can… — Gandhi Copy Share Image
“She did not rise at their entrance, nor make any sign that she had noticed them at all. But perhaps she did… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
It is time that the great center of our people, who reject the violence and unreasonableness of both the extreme right and… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
“Pushing through some viney branches, she comes into a clearing andfinds a sight that makes her hush--and not just her voice but… — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on… — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
In silence, we have an opportunity to reflect, listen, and gain new insights about ourselves. In silence, we can think, feel, and… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“I wonder if you realize: When you browbeat people who disagree with you into silence - because they don't want to be… — Dan Calabrese Copy Share Image
One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“She is standing just behind you. Just behind your right shoulder." In the silence of the woods, Polly turned. "I can't see… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I cannot give up on my values and beliefs for the sake of respecting someone else’s values and morals. Because those values… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Practice silence and you will acquire silent knowledge. In this silent knowledge is a computing system that is far more precise and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Playing Destroyo, who was sort of a 'Silence Of The Lambs' type character, I'd say I was wearing about 50 pounds of… — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
“Proverbs from the East: The wind howls, but the mountain remains still. Even though I make no special attempt to observe the… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Silence can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling inflation of words. But silence may be… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The au pair was bug-eyed. "What happened back there?" "It's not our fault!" Dan babbled. "Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of… — C.E. Morgan 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
You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot Copy Share Image