Silence Quotes - Page 28

• Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Absence, Holy, Reminders

  Twitter post from Apr 04, 2015

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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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• Right now, I would like complete silence when I'm talking.

  CM Punk

  Talking, Wwe, Right Now

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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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• Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Order, Space, Needs

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.6, New World Library

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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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• Prayer within breath is silence, love within infinity is silence, Wisdom without word is silence, compassion without aim is silence, action without doer is silence, smiling with all existence is silence

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Prayer, Compassion, Doers

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Celebrating Silence”, p.11, Arktos

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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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• There's no match for the silence of GOD.

  Nicole Krauss

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.

  Anuj

  Men, Voice, Humanity

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• There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing

  Beryl Markham

  Mean, Different, Kind

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.58, Open Road Media

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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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• A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary.

  A.M. Homes

  Thinking, Talking, People

  A.M. Homes (2012). “Jack”, p.179, Granta Books

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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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• A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.

  Neil Genzlinger

  Art, Moments, Lost

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• Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Hurt, Heart

  Rob Sheffield (2013). “Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke”, p.12, Harper Collins

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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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