Silence Quotes - Page 23

• Freediving is about silence...the silence that comes from within.

  Jacques Mayol

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• Silence allows you to watch your mind and become aware of the thoughts that you may be acting on unconsciously. When you see the thoughts, you can make a conscious choice to act on the thought or change your mind, instead of going along with the noise. I have seen people who don't want to look at themselves keep going until something happens that makes them stop — a sickness or an accident — but it gives them that reflective, quiet space where they can face what is difficult in their mind. We each have a unique purpose to fulfill in this life and inklings can come in those quiet moments.

  Sivananda Radha Saraswati

  Unique, Quiet Moments, Space

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• The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

  Charlotte Lennox

  Inspirational, Men, Praise

  Charlotte Lennox (2006). “The Female Quixote: Easyread Edition”, p.330, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.

  Anne Frank

  Dark, Wings, House

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.86, Bantam

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• I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past.
  In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.

  August Strindberg

  Past

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.286, Univ of California Press

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• The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and feminist movements ignore the inhumane treatment of women who live under Islamic law.

  Caroline Glick

  Islamic, Heart, Self

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• To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Way, Becoming, Easy

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.103, New World Library

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• I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.

  Zedd

  Sleep, Silence Love

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• The first sound after a silence should always be your very best.

  Arnold Jacobs

  Sound, Firsts, Should

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• When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.

  Jocelyn Murray

  Fall, Tree, Forests

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• Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Mistake, Ignorance

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• When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Defense, Opponents, Weak

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.227

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• Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

  Mike Dirnt

  Thinking, Next Week, Months

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• The landscapist lives in silence.

  Henri Rousseau

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• Silence is bringing you back home, and it gives you that much needed energy to realize 'Who You Are', to realize that there is bliss, there is beauty, there is joy, and that is 'You'

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Home, Giving, Joy

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• The price of seeing is silence.

  Marge Piercy

  Seeing

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.30, Knopf

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• New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices.

  Alison Fell

  New York, Voice, Looks

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• After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Speak, Lifetime, Difficult

  "Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia". Book by Marya Hornbacher, 1998.

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• I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Writing, Sound, Quiet

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• It is not easy to enter into the silence and reach beyond the many boisterous and demanding voices of our world and to discover there the small intimate voice saying: 'You are my Belived Child, on you my favor rests.'

  Henri Nouwen

  Children, Our World, Voice

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “Life of the Beloved”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Often Can, Waiting, Accomplish

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• Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence — and always by saying something more embarrassing than the silence?

  Robert Breault

  Doe, Sometimes, Embarrassing

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• By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Gaps, Window

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• The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness.

  Rajneesh

  Technology, Missing, Joy

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• Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

  Saint Augustine

  Reflection, Looks, Littles

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