Silence Quotes
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You made the chaos in me feel less like a violent whirling and gave me a silence that felt like home.
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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
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He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...' I answered, 'Yes, of course.
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Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.
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The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it became the palace in which greatness was nurtured. He touched the forest and it became to him a church in which the purest and noblest worship of God was observed. His occupation has become associated in our minds with the integrity of the life he lived. In Lincoln there was always some quality that fastened him to the people and taught their to keep time to the music of his heart.
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Be faithful to the time spent in prayer and make sure that at least half of your prayer is spent in silence. This will bring you closer to Jesus. If you deepen your prayer life you will grow in holiness and obtain many graces for the souls entrusted to your care. Deepen your love for one another by praying for each other and by sharing thoughts and graces you have received in prayer and reading.
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A friend of mine was married to an assistant church pastor who regularly beat her up. He was smart ?- he'd do it in a way that the bruises didn't show. For the longest time, she dealt with it. Who would believe the minister was a wife beater?! Meanwhile, my friend ? - An attorney! ? - Suffered in silence.
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True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.
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Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.
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The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)
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I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire.
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In ... silence we find a new energy and a real unity. God's energy becomes our, allowing us to perform things well.
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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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My only two weapons: time and silence.
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When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.
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What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?
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All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.
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In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence sharing an experience or simply enjoying each other's presence without saying anything.
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A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant. The burning lake turns into a forest pool. The fire subsides into rings of water. A sunlit silence.
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The best answers come when you silence your mind.
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It started to rain and we just sat. Sat and watched the rain in silence.
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There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
