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• Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Fear, Moving

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, “I should make that call", but I put it off. Because there’s something pleasurable about not talking. But then I love talking, so it’s not that. But sometimes it can be nice. It’s not like I sit here philosophizing, because I’ve no talent for that. It’s just this thing about silence that’s so wonderful.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Nice, Thinking, Talking

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• When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Teaching, Statistics, Self Discipline

  'Lacon' (1820) vol. 1, no. 183

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• We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Integrity, Anger, Character

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.96, Beacon Press

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• If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Race, Use, Speech

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• Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully.

  Norton Juster

  Beautiful, Country, Night

  "The Phantom Tollbooth". Book by Norton Juster, www.theguardian.com. 1961.

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• The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Spiritual, Temples, Spirituality

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, John F. Addington (1859). “A complete dictionary of poetical quotations: comprising the most excellent and appropriate passages in the old British poets; with choice and copious selections from the best modern British and American poets”, p.477

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• The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

  Joseph Sobran

  Fear, Mean, Men

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• Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Tactics, Distrust, Silence Is

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• Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

  Catherine Doherty

  Speech, Terrible, Gentle

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  A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

  Margaret Atwood

  Bad Ass, Voice, Together

  "Margaret Atwood on a voyage to the world's end" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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• We are not heading for an eternal void and an eternal silence but we are on our way to an encounter, an encounter with Him who created us and loves us more than mother and father.

  Raniero Cantalamessa

  Christian, Mother, Father

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• It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.

  Paula Poundstone

  Truth, Women, Book

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• Calumnies are answered best with silence.

  Ben Jonson

  Advice, Calumny

  'Volpone' (1605) act 2, sc. 2

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• I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Giving, Assuming

  Plato, Aeterna Press (2015). “Cratylus”, p.133, Aeterna Press

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• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

  Socrates

  Profound, Noise, Melody

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• The wise are silent, the foolish speak, and the children are thus led astray, for wisdom is not knowledge, it is a realization of the scheme and of one's own part in it.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Wise, Children, Confused

  "The Bright Messenger: Blackwood Collections".

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• A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspiring, Rest In Peace, Morning

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 31, 2011

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• Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased.

  Ralph C. Smedley

  Inspirational, Success, Respect

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• Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Life, Acceptance, Intelligent

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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• Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.

  Mark Helprin

  Death, Prayer, Pain

  Mark Helprin (1991). “A Soldier of the Great War”, Harcourt

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• The worst expression of the Prophet’s (Sallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa Sallam) anger towards his wife was that he would remain silent.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Family, Marriage, Husband

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• If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Teaching, Islamic, Ignorance

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• When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence of anybody who might release adrenaline. The best situation I know for an easy birth is when there is nobody else around than an experienced, motherly and silent midwife who does not behave like a guide or an observer.

  Michel Odent

  Numbers, People, Experience

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