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• Words created the future, exacerbated problems, raised barriers between them. But in the silence of Ford's sleep, Ford could love Dan easily; in the stillness of Ford's rest, Dan could adore him without question or fear.

  Jim Grimsley

  Love, Sleep, Problem

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• The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.

  Vicki Lewis Thompson

  Dream, Flower, Shadow

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• Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.

  Sara Maitland

  Creativity, Garden, Way

  "Beyond peace and quiet" by Sara Maitland, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.

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• Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.

  Fred Rogers

  Powerful, Important, Importance

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• Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.

  Paulo Coelho

  Goal, Life Is, Life Goal

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 23, 2014

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• The loudest noise in the world is silence.

  Thelonious Monk

  World, Noise

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• Peace is Letting Go--Returning to the Silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This is why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Letting Go, Rivers, Tree

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1995). “Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman”, Penguin Books

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• Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Foolish, Possibility, Save Me

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1966). “Themes and episodes”

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• Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits.

  Joy Williams

  Prayer, Writing, Benefits

  Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.177, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Silence can never be misquoted.

  Calvin Coolidge

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• Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a
  destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere
  arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.

  Kenneth Turan

  Regret, Sound, World

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• The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death

  Joseph Conrad

  Artist, Voice, Calling

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Notes on Life and Letters”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mother, Names, People

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• When you are aware of space, you are not really aware of anything, except awareness itself - the inner space of consciousness. Through you, the universe is becoming aware of itself! Just as space enables all things to exist and just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Essence, Space, Sound

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• That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.

  Earl Nightingale

  Interesting, Secret, Shut Up

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale “How to Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Compleat”, Lulu.com

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• Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It's important to know that our biggest resources are in our heart.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Heart, Cities, Perspective

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• In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Sound, Corny

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• The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Beautiful, Climbing, Bird

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• Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Music, Mistake, Believe

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

  Thomas Merton

  Relationship, Brother, Solitude

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.280, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The deepest feelings always show itself in silence.

  Marianne Williamson

  Feelings, Shows, Deepest Feelings

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• There is art in taking time to appreciate the clean wash of the mind's silence.

  Dan Wakefield

  Art, Appreciate, Mind

  Dan Wakefield (2010). “Creating from the Spirit: A Path to Creative Power in Art and Life”, p.11, Beech River Books

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• Hear, see, and be silent.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Silent

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.105, Shambhala Publications

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• Never say anything unless you have to.

  John Travolta

  Say Anything

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