Adyashanti Quotes, Silence Quotes, Sound Quotes

The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

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Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Silence Quotes , Mind Quotes

Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.

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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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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Eye Quotes , Silence Quotes

The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.

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Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

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We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Silence Quotes , Moments 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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Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

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One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

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Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

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Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

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Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

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

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

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For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?

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Noise: a stench in the ear.

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If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

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The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Light Quotes , Silence Quotes

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

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