Best Silent Lines
2059 Silent quotes by 1309 unique authors
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When they remain silent, they cry out.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my…
— Thomas Merton
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When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.
— Monica Bellucci
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Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are…
— Nhat Hanh
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This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in…
— Rumi
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Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years…
— Will Carleton
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Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking,…
— Mark Helprin
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To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you.
— John O'Donohue
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Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
— John of the Cross
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If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you told them, then…
— Henry Jenkins
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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk.…
— Lord Byron
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Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.
— Washington Irving
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The only way you can find it is through being alone with your thoughts at sufficiently long intervals to give that inner voice within you…
— Walter Russell
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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of…
— Arthur Balfour
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Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound…
— Thomas Carlyle
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How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally…
— Sri Chinmoy
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When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to be fully aware of the…
— Sri Chinmoy
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When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence,…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.
— Sri Chinmoy
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If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.
— Jerry Falwell
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In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then;…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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