Silent Quotes - Page 5

• I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

  William Hamilton Maxwell

  Quiet, Taciturn, Listeners

  William Hamilton Maxwell (1833). “Stories of Waterloo”, p.4

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• She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through it, silent death. It was a place where snakes could slither and bogs could suck the shoe right off your foot. And it was a place, she thought, that went bright and beautiful with the twinkling of fireflies, where wildflowers thrived in the shade and the stingy light. Where an eagle could soar like a king. There was no beauty without risk. No life without it.

  Nora Roberts

  Beautiful, Summer, Kings

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• When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

  Roger Zelazny

  Inspiration, Tire, Reason

  "Trumps of Doom (The Second Chronicles of Amber, Book 1)". Book by Roger Zelazny (Chapter 6, p. 108), May 1985.

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• We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Spiritual, Heart, Voice

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• Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.

  Sophocles

  Forgiveness, Silence, Pardon

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• Waiting prayer, or waiting on the Lord, is the silent surrendering of the soul to God. It is wordless worship. It is seeking God not from without but from within. It is to seek God in your heart.

  Jaeson Ma

  Prayer, Heart, Waiting

  Jaeson Ma (2007). “The Blueprint: A Revolutionary Plan to Plant Missional Communities on Campus”, p.77, Gospel Light Publications

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• Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?

  Khalil Gibran

  Silence, Together, Would Be

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I am not a person to say the words out loud
  I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page:
  know it from there, from my silence, from somewhere other
  than my tongue
  the quiet love
  the silent rage.

  Keri Hulme

  Thinking, Silence, Pages

  Keri Hulme (1992). “Strands”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Grief, Agony, Mind

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.342

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• When the Kundalini crosses the Agnya, you become thoughtlessly aware. Thoughtlessly aware means, you are aware but there is no thought. You become silent. When it crosses the brahmarandra then the vibrations start flowing through you, and you get cool vibrations.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.

  James A. Michener

  Beautiful, Lakes, Southern

  James A. Michener (2014). “The Covenant: A Novel”, p.27, Dial Press

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• Daughter, I want you to form the most intense, loving relationship with yourself. Only then will you realize your capacity for kindness and emotional expansiveness. Daughter, after you have formed this relationship with yourself, I want you to love others with the openness and humility that you always embodied as a child. Daughter, I want you to forgive easily, laugh loudly and never allow yourself to become the invisible, silent woman that your mother was. Daughter, this is how we soften our hearts and become better human beings.

  Diriye Osman

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Long, Dumb

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• Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.

  John Denver

  Song, Singers, Stills

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• What if you were a teacher but had no voice to speak your knowledge? What if you had no language at all and yet there was something you needed to say? Wouldn't you dance it? Wouldn't you act it out? Wouldn't your every movement tell the story? In time you would be so eloquent that just to gaze upon you would reveal it all. And so it is with these silent green lives.

  Robin Wall Kimmerer

  Teacher, Voice, What If

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• I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.

  Rumi

  Soul, Speak, Dear

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• In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.

  Ernst Toller

  Quiet, Kind, Monk

  Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

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• When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

  Marge Piercy

  Eye, Angel, Brain

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.117, Knopf

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• Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Sometimes, Heard

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• Ahmed Johnson came from a neighborhood where the most common words heard was, You have the right to remain silent.

  Jerry Lawler

  Common, Neighborhood, Heard

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• Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

  Kevin Brownlow

  Art, Attitude, Form

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• Through meditation one discovers one's own light. That light you can call your soul, your self, your God—whatsoever word you choose—or you can remain just silent because it has no name. It is a nameless experience, tremendously beautiful, ecstatic, utterly silent, but it gives you the taste of eternity, of timelessness, of something beyond death.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Light, Self

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• Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.

  Rajneesh

  Roots, Meditation, Feelings

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