One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk. —Victoria Wolff More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. —Sylvia Plath More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Silence is not a thing we make; it is something into which we enter. It is always there. . . . All we can make is noise. —Mother Maribel of Wantage More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. . . . It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, and every word. —Eckhart Tolle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. . . Every sound is born —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why do monks live in seclusion? That is asking why does a scientist work in a laboratory, or why does a sailor go on a ship or why does a duck swim in water. Why does a man go to his bedroom and get in bed when he wants to go to sleep? Why doesn't he lie down in the middle of the street? A monk seeks silence and solitude because there his mind and heart can relax and expand and attain to a new perspective: there too he can hear the Word of God. . . . An apt saying of the Muslim Sufis comes to mind here: "The hen does not lay eggs in the marketplace. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Just be quiet and sit down. / The reason is you are drunk, / and this is the edge of the roof. —Rumi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear [who] makes so much noise. —Mary Austin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. —Linda Hogan More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. —John Lahr More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence. —Mother Teresa More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Being human cannot be borne alone. We need other presences. We need soft night noises — a mother speaking downstairs. . . . We need the little clicks and sighs of a sustaining otherness. We need the gods. —John Updike More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. —Mel Brooks More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, otherworldly activities. . . . They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future. —Desmond Tutu More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Forgiveness is no substitute for justice. —Pope Benedict xvi More about this quote Tags: justice forgiveness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email