Gautama Buddha Quotes, Silence Quotes, Trying Quotes

Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.

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The silence of the envious is too noisy.

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Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

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All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

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Be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech.

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Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Moving Quotes , Silence Quotes

One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

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Noise: a stench in the ear.

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In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.

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Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.

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The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

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There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Silence Quotes , World Quotes

Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Two Quotes , Silence Quotes

To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Silence Quotes , Stopping Quotes

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Silence Quotes , Progressive Quotes

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

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Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Silence Quotes , Mind Quotes

And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.

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Tags : Adam Hochschild Quotes , Silence Quotes , Trying Quotes

If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Silence Quotes

Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Silence Quotes