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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence."

Doors Silence Gratitude
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B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Teacher
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"When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the body, you cannot understand the silence of the mind. Action and silence have to go together. If there is action, there must also be silence. If there is silence, there can be conscious action and not just motion."

Mind Brain Silence
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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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"Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken."

Remember Silence Tongue
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Elif Safak Author
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"After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst."

People Silence Grief
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Emile M. Cioran Philosopher, Essayist
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"A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech."

Silence Essentials Speech
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David Bowie Musician, Actor
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"Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence."

People Running Silence
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Cat Stevens Singer-songwriter
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"Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind."

Mind Wall Silence
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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true."

Quality Silence Faithful
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Brand Blanshard Philosopher
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"When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence."

Men Silence Fruit Flies
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Byron Katie Author, Speaker
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"If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought."

Silence Silent Proof
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Arnulf Rainer Artist
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"The principles of my works... are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity... My ideal is the completely dark picture, full of some overwhelming silence."

Dark Expression Silence
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"Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate in silence."

Hate Silence Excellence
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