Silent Quotes - Page 32

• Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Perseverance, Grows, Greater

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• Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Prayer

  Soren Kierkegaard (1956). “The Prayers of Kierkegaard”, p.206, University of Chicago Press

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• Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Men, Tree, Secret

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• But there are so many ways to be needy. There are many who mourn and find no comfort. Many are lonely and find no love. Some feel unneeded and find no opportunities to share with others. Anyone who has an unmet need is needy. We are all needy! And those who have something they can share are rich. We are all rich! All of us can share something that may lift a burden or help in some silent struggle.

  Mary Edmunds

  Lonely, Struggle, Opportunity

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• When one is perfectly still-mind and body, silent and alone-there is no personality to speak of, thus personality is one's unique way of expression, it is what others see and know of us, nothing more or deeper than that.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Unique, Expression, Personality

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• As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

  Adyashanti

  Knowing, Mind, Return

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• There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Cat, Folks, Furry

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• A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sweet, Mouths

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• We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.

  Peter King

  Needs, Done, Flight

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• The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Writing, Negative

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• If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Want, Facts, Pleasure

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.168, Open Court Publishing

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• I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right of gnome-lovers everywhere to do their own thing without fear of snide remarks.

  Richard Briers

  Couple, Garden, Lovers

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• Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.

  Martin Luther

  Waiting, Shapes, Hebrew

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• Know that the mirror of the heart is boundless. . . Here, opinions become silent, otherwise they will lead you into errors. . . for the heart is sacred - even more the heart is sacredness itself.

  Rumi

  Heart, Errors, Mirrors

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• It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

  Herman Melville

  Whales, Subtle, Caught

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.268

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• I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.

  Ronald Reagan

  Prayer, Believe, School

  Address to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, delivered 30 January 1984, Sheraton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Men, Mistress, Lovers

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• The faithful witness, like...Socrates, Voltaire, and Swift and Christ himself, is at his best when he is questioning and clarifying and avoiding the specialists obsession with solution. He betrays society when he is silent...He is true to himself and to people when his clarity causes disquiet.

  John Ralston Saul

  People, Faithful, Causes

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• Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.

  Alfred Delp

  Song, Reality, Self

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• You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.

  Jacob Neusner

  Thinking, Asking Questions, Needs

  Jacob Neusner (2007). “How To Grade Your Professors: And Other Unexpected Advice”, p.11, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it about it that kindles the kind of loyalty that I feel coming from the people in this room this evening? And I submit to you that it is nothing less than the rebirth of a voice that has been silent for at least a thousand years, the still small voice of the Logos of the planet.

  Terence McKenna

  Loyalty, Children, Years

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• But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a silent and intuitive consciousness? Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible.

  Jacques Derrida

  Speech, Consciousness, Subjects

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• Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Pride, Vanity, Together

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• Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Secret, Closest Friends, Closest

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• The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.
  Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.

  Edward Abbey

  Ideas, Needs, Defense

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