Silent Quotes - Page 26

• At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but 'silent' does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened mind; a mind seeking the nature of reality.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Nature, Mean, Reality

  Thubten Yeshe, Lama Yeshe, Josh Bartok, Nicholas Ribush (2011). “When the Chocolate Runs Out”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from which the living that really know the truth never suffer because they do not fear life or death as we do and can afford to be calm and silent. The frailest flower that blooms knows that it will rise from the dead in the next season's sun, breathe, feel again the dew and rain. Therefore these little ones make no such tragedy as we do of death.

  Corra May Harris

  Rain, Flower, Hysteria

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• A mantra is a thought. Use a mantra to help you still your mind initially and then move into silent meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Selfish, Pride

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.191, Read Books Ltd

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• All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Men, Voice

  "Breakfast Of Champions". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1973.

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• ...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.

  Simon Raven

  Men, Light, Matter

  Simon Raven (2001). “Doctors Wear Scarlet”, p.112, House of Stratus

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• There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.

  William Shatner

  Jokes

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• Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Demand, Innocence, Speak

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• Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intuition, Logic, Moments

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

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• I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Church, Looks, Sanctuary

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.19, Penguin

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• The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Art, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2452, Delphi Classics

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  We live our little life; but Heaven is above us and all around and close to us; and Eternity is before us and behind us; and suns and stars are silent witnesses and watchers over us. We are enfolded by Infinity.

  Albert Pike

  Stars, Heaven, Littles

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• It's nice, when fishing, to catch a fish. But it doesn't really matter if you don't. What you always catch is a quiet time sitting at the water's edge, or in a gently rocking boat, a silent time of water and sky and the movement of natural things.

  Ruth Rudner

  Nice, Fishing, Sky

  Ruth Rudner (1978). “Forgotten pleasures: a guide for the seasonal adventurer”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• When the silent majority opens its mouth, it is usually to yawn.

  Gerd de Ley

  Inspirational, Funny, Majority

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• A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.

  Bryan Procter

  Stars, Night, Jewels

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• How silent are the winds!

  Bryan Procter

  Wind

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• The silent bear no witness against themselves.

  Aldous Huxley

  Bears, Witness

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation fed by a subtle fear of the heart. We pull back, believing that what happens to others is not our concern. Our courage leaves us. Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

  Jack Kornfield

  Believe, Heart, Caring

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.137, Random House

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• When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Needs, Want, Speak

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• In every defeat, there develops a silent embryo of victory; in every failure, under the rubbles, there appears a divine key to success.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Success, Keys, Victory

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• The Sun has no chance to be nobody and that is the punishment for being a sun! If you can be nobody just like a humble tree in a silent forest, you can find the happiness too!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Humble, Punishment

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• Always seek for balance in your life: If you stayed long in the darkness, walk long in the light; if you talked too much, stay silent for a good while; if you climbed the high mountains, hike long on the plains! Balance everything!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Light, Long

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• Silent moments are valuable! They give you a good opportunity to design new paths in your life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Opportunity, Giving

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• Child! Turn your face to the light, to the science, to the reason, to the truth, to the peace! Child! Be modern, be compassionate, be individual, and be independent! Child! Don't be the man of anyone or any system, don't believe in any religious stories, and don't ever be silent against any oppressor! Child, turn your face to the light and walk towards the light!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Religious, Peace, Children

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• Do not be proud just because you have brute force, because an animal has brute force too! Either you be proud with your intellect and with your thoughts or be silent and sit down!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Animal, Proud, Force

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