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"For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt."
"The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable."
"Let us have the luxury of silence."
"Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people."
"On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence."
"Restrain yourself... and gloat in silence. I'll have no jubilation here. It is an impious thing to exult over the slain."
"There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses."
"I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters."
"God speaks in the silence of the heart."
"We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between."
"In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love."
"Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled."
"Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places."
"Silence is an answer to a wise man."
"Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace."
"The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts."
"Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return."
"Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven."
"The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible."
"Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source."
