"The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness."
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"You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside."
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"Only cowards hide behind silence."
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"Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence."
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"Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind."
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"Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness."
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"Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words."
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"Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life."
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"Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds."
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"The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go"
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"[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence."
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"The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-."
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"A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence."
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"Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society."
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"It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on"
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". . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors."
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"Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free us from their impertinent solicitations. I flatter myself, that I have discovered an argument ... which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures. For so long, I presume, will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all history, sacred and profane."
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"Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges."
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"We have to learn to go beyond both a positive mind and a negative mind to become a silent, nonjudgmental, non-analytical, non-interpretiv e mind. In other words, the silent witness. In the process of silent witnessing, we experience inner silence. In the purity of silence, we feel connected to our source and to everything else."
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"Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality."
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