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| True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~ William Penn |
| Silence is the true friend that never betrays. ~ Confucius |
| An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind. ~ Walter Bagehot |
| Silence is a source of great strength. ~ Lao Tzu |
| Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. ~ John Lahr |
| The Arctic expresses the sum of all wisdom: Silence. ~ Walter Bauer |
| Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation… tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. ~ Jean Arp |
| I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes. ~ Richard Steele |
| Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation. ~ James Thurber |
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| Now all my teachers are dead except silence. ~ W.S. Merwin |
| The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence. ~ Sylvia Plath, |
| Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for – sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quite and calm…. One of the greatest sounds of them all – and to me it is a sound – is utter, complete silence. ~ Andre Kostelanetz |
| All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite. ~ Elbert Hubbard |
unplug iPod
music stops abruptly
cricket song instead
~ Dr SunWolf |
| In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. ~ Mahatma Gandhi |
God’s poet is silence! His song is unspoken,
And yet so profound, so loud, and so far,
It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken,
And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.
~ Joaquin Miller |
| Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~ German Proverb |
| Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time. ~ Thomas Carlyle |
| You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword. ~ Samuel Johnson |
| Silence is medication for sorrow. ~ Arab Proverb |
| To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~ Latin Proverb |
| Silence was never written down. ~ Italian Proverb |
| Silence is exhilarating at first – as noise is – but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep. ~ Edward Hoagland |
| Nature and silence go better together. ~ Astrid Alauda |
| You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind. ~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba |
| Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. ~ Peter Minard |
| Silence is a text easy to misread. ~ A.A. Attanasio |
| Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
| Silence is more musical than any song. ~ Christina Rossetti |