Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.
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Related real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks be... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH real silence is silence without words, silence that speaks words in silence and silence that talks b... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The real power of silence is to keep silent. The real power of silence is in the works of silence! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhi... EDWARD HOAGLAND To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy. ELAYNE BOOSLER There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that ... BERYL MARKHAM The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea. WILLIAM SHARP There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end a... DANIEL BARENBOIM Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I did not speak. I have found in any Q&A, in court, in witness interviews, wherever, often the b... WILLIAM LANDAY They waited for the elevator. " Most people love butterflies and hate moth," he said. "But moths are... THOMAS HARRIS Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking l... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence. THOMAS HOOD I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To Silence THOMAS HOOD The silence was more profound than that of midnight; and to me the silence of a summer morning is mo... THOMAS DE QUINCEY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you... MOTHER TERESA Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yoursel... SRI CHINMOY Some things are very dear to me --/ Such things as flowers bathed by rain/ Or patterns traced upon t... GWENDOLYN BENNETT There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of s... DONALD JUSTICE the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone.... SUZANNE COLLINS The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the ... SOLOMON IBN GABIROL When a child disappears, the space she’d occupied is immediately filled with dozens of people. And... DENNIS LEHANE Of course, silence in the theater, when you know that that silence is being sustained before your ey... BEN KINGSLEY Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth ANNE RICE Silent? ah, he is silent! He can keep silence well. That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. THOMAS HARDY Silence against cruelty is the biggest crime in the world, and we do. JUNAID RAZA Guns have their own silence. It is the silence of the dead to come. JOHN LE CARRé Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. MARCEL MARCEAU The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. SYLVIA PLATH Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and exter... AMIT RAY When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie. YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO ...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And ... EDGAR ALLAN POE Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I ... EMANUEL AX His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Silence creates its own violence. JEFF VANDERMEER The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE What is left after war is silence: The silence of the death; the silence of the debris; the silence ... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with si... WALTER MURCH To silence criticism is to silence freedom. SIDNEY HOOK It is within silence that we truly understand the importance of silence. TYLER J. HEBERT 115. Infallibly, silence leads to God, provided man stops looking at himself. For even in the exper... ROBERT SARAH There lies a silence of the heart in the dance of colorful autumn leaves. SIR KRISTIAN GOLDMUND AUMANN It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. VICTOR HUGO I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subje... PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we st... MAURICE MAETERLINCK At first we had so much to catch up on we were talking a hundred words a second, barely even listeni... CECELIA AHERN Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence. SAMANTHA POWER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. DAME EDITH SITWELL My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. EDITH SITWELL My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the sam... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER One must not be afraid of a little silence. Some find silence awkward or oppressive. But a relaxed a... ROBERT K. GREENLEAF I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holdi... NATALIE GOLDBERG This silent call you make, A silence so loud I fear the world knows it's meaning If you fill every c... SPIKE MILLIGAN Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permea... KAMAND KOJOURI And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know WILLIAM ROSE BENET Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silenc... STEVEN MAGEE I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence. ALFRED ANDERSON In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here. DANIEL BARENBOIM Silence gives consent, or a horrible feeling that nobody's listening. FRANKLIN P. JONES Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy's words. SHANNON L. ALDER We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence... MOTHER TERESA We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.... MOTHER THERESA We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.... MOTHER TERESA Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE I recognize the power of silence in an extroverted world but there is a time for silence and a time ... MATTHEW DONNELLY Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness. NATALIA GINZBURG Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk AMIT ABRAHAM Fools believe silence is a void needing to be filled; the wise understand there's no such thing as s... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book. JONATHAN FRANZEN Without radical humility that is expressed in gestures of adoration and in sacred rituals, no friend... ROBERT SARAH Any route that leads to a place of silence in your mind is meditation. KēVENS Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of sil... WAYNE DYER Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember y... WAYNE W. DYER The duty of the one who wants to be silent is to be silent, period! Give little thought to the cacop... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spo... THOMAS A KEMPIS The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. S... NICHOLAS SPARKS Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, ... THOMAS HARRIS The right answer to a fool is silence AFGHAN PROVERB It is good to stay in silence, but it's better to speak the truth, only the truth. BRADLEY B. DALINA When people are uncomfortable - and many people are when they have to negotiate - they start ramblin... IVANKA TRUMP Silence is the virtue of fools. FRANCIS BACON Silence is the mother of truth. BENJAMIN DISRAELI Silence is the virtue of fools. SIR FRANCIS BACON The fruit of silence is tranquillity. ARABIAN PROVERB Silence is the language of hurt IAN IJH HOWELL Silence is the door of consent. BERBER PROVERB Silence is the wit of fools. ANATOLE FRANCE From his silence a man's consent is inferred. DECIMUS LABERIUS The noise hides the silence. It does not destroy the silence. (Le bruit cache le silence. - Il ne d�... CHARLES DE LEUSSE We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women. SEANAN MCGUIRE To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. MARCEL MARCEAU
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