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• The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless world. Rather the silence around us is a small and pitiful stillness like the prompt stillness of a sick room. We are perhaps permitted tragedy as a sort of merciful comedy, because the frantic energy of divine things would knock us down like a drunken farce. We can take our own tears more lightly than we could take the tremendous levities of the angels. So we sit perhaps in a starry chamber of silence while the laughter of the heavens is too loud for us to hear.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Laughter, Angel

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• That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of 'bread and circuses' can compensate for the damage done-these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence-because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Soul, Humanity, Would Be

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.

  Thomas Merton

  Solitude, Speech

  Thomas Merton (1996). “Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk & Writer”, Harper San Francisco

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• Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Evil, Suffering, Sound

  Ravi Zacharias (2008). “End of Reason”, p.60, Harper Collins

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• He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Clouds, Mystery

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• In Silence the heart illumines; veil after veil is removed.In the heart shines the Light of Love.When the Light of Love is seen shining within your heart you behold the Light in all.Your heart will be filled with love and compassion for all.

  Kirpal Singh

  Heart, Love Is, Compassion

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• One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the joy of the heart.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, Joy, Soul

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• I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Speech

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• Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

  Adyashanti

  Imagine, Come Up

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• Realize that the Silence offers an ever available and almost unlimited opportunity for awakening the highest conception of Truth. Try to comprehend that Omnipotence itself is absolute silence; all else is change, activity, limitation. Silent thought concentration is therefore the true method of reaching, awakening and then expressing the wonderful potential power of the world within.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Opportunity, Omnipotence, Trying

  Charles F. Haanel, Donald Gordon Carty (2013). “The Master Key System: 2nd Edition: Open the Secret to Health, Wealth and Love, 24 Lesson Workbook”, p.203, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Brutality, Dangerous

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• Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

  Cornel West

  Dark, Roots, Profound

  Cornel West (1999). “The Cornel West Reader”, p.17, Basic Books

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• It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Scare, Violence

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• Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

  Carl Jung

  Healing, Talking, Solitude

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• In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Voice, Meditation

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• If we took a moment of silence for each person lost to abortion, we would be silent for over 100 years.

  Frank Pavone

  Years, Abortion, Would Be

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• True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  True Friend, Two, People

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• Don't misinterpret God's silence as rejection.

  T. B. Joshua

  Rejection

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• The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.

  Dale Spender

  Men, Silent, Has Beens

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• Letter 1
  To the princess of the elephants,
  I disappeared exactly one year ago. On that day I received a letter. It called me back to the place where my life with the elephants began
  Please forgive me, for the silence between us has been unbroken for one year.
  I will never be more of myself than in these letters.
  They are my maps of the bird path, and they are all that I know to be true.

  Gregory Colbert

  Princess, Years, Elephants

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• The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there’s this huge silence about it around me angers me.

  Sunitha Krishnan

  Children, People, Young

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" with Fred de Sam Lazaro, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2007.

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• I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of hopelessness, of despair buried in the depths of poverty, violence, racism are more deadly than bullets. The gift of light, in our compassion, our listening, our works of love is the gift of life to ourselves.

  Janice Mirikitani

  Love Is, Compassion, Light

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• The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence.

  Carlos Gavito

  Dance, Impossible Things, Secret

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• This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to call this system of institutionaliz ed gender roles, so rarely do we name it in everyday speech. This silence promotes denial. And how can we organize to challenge and change a system that cannot be named?

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Names, Challenges

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt I had just been ruined.

  Abbi Glines

  Doubt, Waterfalls, Pool

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 2: Just for Now; Sometimes It Lasts; Misbehaving”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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