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• There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Spiritual, Health

  "Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Messenger of Love" by Lennie Kronisch, Yoga Journal, Issue 11, pp. 18-20, November - December 1976.

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• Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

  Annie Besant

  Inspiring, Thinking, Happy Independence Day

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• So many of you have lost everything. I do not know what to tell you. But surely he knows what to tell you! So many of you have lost members of your family. I can only be silent; I accompany you silently, with my heart...

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Silence, Doe

  Pope Francis' Homily at Mass in Tacloban City, w2.vatican.va. January 17, 2015.

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• If you do not yet know where you fit, I suggest you try seeking it in receptive silence. I used to walk amid the beauties of nature, just receptive and silent, and wonderful insights would come to me.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Silence, Vision, Trying

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.7, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

  Cato the Elder

  God, Anger, Thinking

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• The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, True Friend, Grief

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

  Elie Wiesel

  Peace, Bystanders, History

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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• It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Silence, Covering, Sauce

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• It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Speech, Speak, Ashamed

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• Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Holocaust, Remembrance

  Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

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• When your silent, people recognize your greatness.

  Jordan Burroughs

  Greatness, People

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• Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Silence

  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) preface

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• Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Moving, Compassion

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• It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people. She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead.

  E. Lockhart

  Sweet, Simple, Doors

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.217, Hot Key Books

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• Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

  Winston Churchill

  Being Strong, Military, Character

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds good behavior. At the same time Christ-like love refuses to endorse misbehavior. Jesus loved His apostles, but He wasn't silent when they were faithless. Jesus loved the people in the temple, but He didn't sit still when they were hypocritical.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Love Is, Discovery

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• It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

  Glenn Close

  People, Society, Actresses

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Rocks, White, Silence

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.306

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• All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rain, Weather, Dripping

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, p.150

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• The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.

  Mary Pickford

  Simplicity, Way, Logical

  "Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood". Book by Eileen Whitfield, 1997.

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• Feminine power is silent, dark, mysterious, healing, nurturing. A woman can walk into a room and control it. She doesn't even have to open her mouth if she knows where her power is.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Healing, Dark, Mouths

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• Be silent, Only the Hand of God Can remove The burdens of your heart.

  Rumi

  Heart, Hands, Burden

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• One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.

  Andre Kostelanetz

  Silence, Sound, Sounds Of Silence

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• For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this, we destroy dignity and pride. Every woman who has to sell her life for sex we condemn to a lifetime in prison. For every moment we remain silent, we conspire against our women. For every woman infected by HIV, we destroy a generation.

  Nelson Mandela

  Girl, Sex, Pride

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from May 11, 2017

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• Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

  Jodi Picoult

  Silence, Sound, Sitting

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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