Silently Quotes
337 Silently quotes by 259 unique authors
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
— Henry Adams
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Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful…
— Lynda Barry
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Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.
— Swami Vivekananda
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It is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a question of understanding the subtle…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all; it is witnessing.…
— Rajneesh
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We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee with Jesus Christ…
— Freeman Dyson
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It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.
— Pope John Paul II
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Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.
— Chinmayananda Saraswati
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God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.
— Rumi
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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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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The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at least one hour…
— Rajneesh
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Go deep into meditation. and be meditation I mean silence, awareness, witnessing. You can meditate any time of the day, you can meditate working, walking,…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation is unfocussed mind, you simply listen silently, not with a tension in the mind, not with an urge to know and learn, no, with…
— Rajneesh
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So silently, peacefully, without hurry, without any tension, without any anguish, move into yourself instantly. It is urgent. Unless meditation becomes urgent to you, it…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation, witnessing, silently sitting and looking at the mind, will be of much help. Not forcing, simply sitting and looking. Not doing much, just watching…
— Rajneesh
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The true creativity comes out of sitting silently. When you are so totally quiet that there is no thought, no wave in the ocean of…
— Rajneesh
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The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and…
— Unknown Author
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Straight Americans need an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years…
— Bruce Bawer
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Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.
— Unknown Author
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Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over…
— Al-Shafi‘i
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Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it…
— Anton Chekhov
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If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently…
— John Bertram Phillips
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How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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