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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller
Happiness
Silence
Darkness
Whatever
State
Everything
Learn
Content
May
Wonders
Therein
Even
Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love
Future
Silence
You
Love Is
Looking
Beauty
Past
Holding
Extraordinary
State
Taking
Another
Hand
Child
May
While
Lovingly
Noticed
Evening
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Saskya Pandita
Silence
Cause
Fly
Other
Birds
Danger
About
Misfortune
Parrot
Cage
Freely
Talkative
Talking
Without
Up
Much
Means
Avoiding
Shut
Shut Up
Speech
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Edgar Allan Poe
Saying
Silence
Genius
Everything
Something
True
True Genius
Which
Should
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
Life
Silence
Yourself
Made
Victim
Define
Definition
Allow
Never
Accept
Bullied
Your
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
Oliver Herford
Silence
Man
He
Known
Keeps
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
John Muir
Alone
Silence
Travel
Heart
Dust
Other
Wilderness
Only
Chatter
Mere
Baggage
Hotels
Without
Truly
Get
Going
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali
Good
Silence
You
Think
Answer
Golden
Liars hate silence, so they often try to fill it up by talking more than they need to. They provide far more information than was needed or asked for.
Travis Bradberry
Silence
Hate
Try
Liars
More
Talking
Provide
Up
Than
Often
Information
Far
Asked
Fill
Need
Needed
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous Huxley
Truth
Great
Silence
Eloquent
Totalitarian
About
More
Point
Could
Point Of View
Simply
Most
Practical
Greater
Opinion
Still
Subjects
Effectively
Than
Influenced
Much
Certain
View
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
Health
Silence
Mind
Rest
Spirit
True
Refreshment
Body
Nourishment
Sleep
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
Elizabeth I
Faith
Silence
You
Secrets
Those
Tell
Tested
Whose
To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
Plato
Silence
Assume
Must
Gives
Sure
May
Your
Therefore
Consent
There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
Randeep Hooda
Me
Silence
Words
Better
Spoken
Feel
Lot
Than
Often
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Truth
Silence
Truth Is
Only
Outraged
Equally
Falsehood
May
Violated
I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.
Octavio Paz
Time
Great
Silence
Memory
Personality
Wind
Own
Think
Corner
Our
Distinctive
Ghosts
Blends
Footsteps
Noises
Around
Same
Same Time
Which
Producer
Unique
Street
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
Henri Nouwen
Silence
Words
Listening
Somewhere
Lose
Distance
Longer
Know
Heals
Without
Cure
Closeness
Cannot
Meaning
Speaking
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret Atwood
Silence
Together
Gift
Possible
Voice
Powerlessness
Cherished
Go
Human
Should
Used
Fully
Utter
Speech
Silence is also conversation.
Ramana Maharshi
Silence
Conversation
Also
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
Silence
Fall
Hundred
Oak
Unnoticed
Echoes
Forest
Sown
Acorn
Breeze
Whole
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel Adams
Silence
Words
Focus
Become
Photographs
Shall
Unclear
Content
Inadequate
Images
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
Marcel Marceau
Silence
Thoughts
Man
Communicate
Through
Between
Link
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Rabindranath Tagore
Truth
Great
Silence
Words
Water
Dark
Small
Clear
Great Truth
Vessel
Which
Sparkling
Sea
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
Anthony de Mello
Work
Politics
Religion
Silence
Learning
Progress
Wealth
Compassion
Will
Awareness
Worship
Destroy
Fearlessness
Principle
Without
Human
Race
Human Race
Things
Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.
Celine Dion
Love
Alone
Me
Silence
Solitude
People
Some People
Nothing
Machine
Out
Some
Come
Talking
Being
Being Alone
Regular
Stand
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Charles de Gaulle
Silence
Power
Weapon
Ultimate
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