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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
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"Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a
hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear."
- Rumi
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"Once inner silence is attained, everything is possible."
- Don Juan Matus
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“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other
men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”
- George Bernard Shaw
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“Silence is a source of great strength.”
- Lao Tzu
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“silence is the language of god, all else is poor
translation.”
- Rumi
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“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to
be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.”
- Harvey Fierstein
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"Silence is the great teacher,
and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it."
- Deepak Chopra
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“In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern
improves.”
- Rumi
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“Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.”
- Muhammad Ali
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"Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast
fullness"
- Rumi
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"Silence is a text easy to misread."
- A. A. Attanasio
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"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."
- Josh Billings
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“A silent mouth is melodious.”
- Proverb
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"Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of
attention toward sounds that speak to the soul."
- Thomas Moore
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“Silence is the element in
which great things fashion themselves.”
- Thomas Carlyle
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“It is better to remain silent at the
risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
- Maurice Switzer |
“Silence is only frightening to
people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
- William S. Burroughs |
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“Speak only if it improves upon the
silence.”
- Mahatma Gandhi |
“There is nothing harder, at moments,
than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.”
- Elizabeth Kostova |
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“Silence is the true friend that never betrays.”
- Confucius
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“Silence is a fence around wisdom.“
- German Proverb
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“The silent man is the best to listen to.”
- Japanese Proverb
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“Silence is medication for sorrow.”
- Arab Proverb
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“To silence another, first be silent yourself.”
- Latin Proverb
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“Silence was never written down.”
- Italian Proverb
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“Silence is more musical than any song.”
- Christina Rossetti
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“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand
who are silent.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand
your words.”
- Elbert Hubbard
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“Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the
gods.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Let me silent be, For silence is the speech of love,The music of the spheres above.”
- Richard Henry Stoddard
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“Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who
distrust himself.”
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Words can make a deeper scar than silence can heal.”
- Anonymous
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“It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You
should not be afraid of silence.”
- Alex Trebek
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“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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“Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
- Mark Helprin
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“Silence moves faster when it's going backward.”
- Jean Cocteau
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“Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.”
- Charles Buxton
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“Silence can often be more disturbing
than noise, it reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts”
- José Rodrigues Miguéis |
“Move outside the tangle of
fear-thinking. Live in silence.”
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