Silence Quotes - Page 35

• Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence
  and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a prayer, like
  a bridge over which creatures tiptoe to meet each other. Laughter
  is like mercy; it heals. When you can laugh at yourself, you are
  free.

  Ted Loder

  Laughter, Prayer, Fun

  Ted Loder (2004). “Tracks in the Straw: Tales Spun from the Manger”, p.73, Augsburg Books

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• It is a great art to succeed in having your soul sanctified. A person can become a saint anywhere. He can become a saint in Omonia Square, if he wants. At your work, whatever it may be, you can become a saint through meekness, patience, and love. Make a new start every day, with new resolution, with enthusiasm and love, prayer and silence - not with anxiety so that you get a pain in the chest.

  Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) of Kafsokalivia

  Art, Prayer, Pain

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• Dare, will, keep silence.

  William Bolitho

  Military, Dare

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• Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.

  Kedar Joshi

  Religious, Science, Simple

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• The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit.

  John Main

  Meditation, Challenges, Purpose

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• Passion is overcome only by him who has won through stillness of spirit the perfect vision; it comes through the contentment that is regardless of the world.

  Shantideva

  Passion, Perfect, Vision

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• Angels live no place, as God lives no place. They live in the space of eternity, in the center of our hearts, and sometimes I think we each serve as the channels and angels of God, touched by wings of silence, pushed to angelic acts.

  Sophy Burnham

  Heart, Angel, Thinking

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.192, Penguin

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• Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Weakness, Silence Is

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• Nothing is more useful than silence.

  Menander

  Men, Silent, Silence Is

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, ("Ex Incert. Comœd", p. 216), 1922.

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• Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one was pressed for an answer. A pause giving time for thought was the truly courteous way of beginning and conducting a conversation. Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of silence to the speech-maker and his own moment of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regard for the rule that, "thought comes before speech."

  Luther Standing Bear

  Meaningful, Native American, Space

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• We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Believe, Native American, Perfect

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• Never be silent! Make your opinions known, and do not fear retribution for speaking your mind! The only ones who will aggressively try to silence you are the ones who do not respect the liberties and rights of the individual. Those people deserve our contempt, and when you draw them out of the shadows by exercising your civil right to freedom of speech, they will expose themselves for what they truly are.

  Derek R. Audette

  Exercise, Rights, People

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• As you get older, as a comedian, and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.

  Patton Oswalt

  Long, Laughing, Comedian

  Source: collider.com

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• The Simonian system can be extracted from the writings of Hippolytus. The cosmos begins with the one root, which is unfathomable Silence, pre-existent, limitless power, existing in singleness. It bestirs itself and assumes a determinate aspect by turning into Thinking (Nous, i.e. Mind), from which comes forth the Thought (Epinoia). As soon as thought is born out of the thinking silence, suddenly one has become two.

  Edward F Edinger

  Writing, Thinking, Two

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• The temple of silence and reconciliation.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Temples, Graves, Reconciliation

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• Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strong, Heart, Apology

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• Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Modern, Tyranny, Toleration

  Illustrated London News, 10 Oct. 1908

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• If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

  Horace

  Envy, Crow, Meat

  "Epistles", I. 17. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 690-91, 1922.

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• The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fate, Hands, Law

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• Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their being. But there is no need! This smallness is your own imposition upon your freedom, upon your unlimited possibilities, upon your unlimited potential.

  Rajneesh

  Unlimited Potential, Joy, Contentment

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• The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wise, Wisdom, Character

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• The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.

  William Wordsworth

  Lonely, Sleep, Sky

  'Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle' (1807)

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• The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.

  Thomas Browne

  Loving Friends, Tables, Secrecy

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• The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

  Moliere

  World, Scandal, Sin

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• The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.

  William C. Bryant

  Men, Sound, Down And

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Forest Hymn”

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