"Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly."
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"Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality."
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"In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood."
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"no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world."
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"Silence isn't golden. It's yellow."
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"Nothing at times is more expressive than silence."
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"To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity."
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"In the silence of LOVE you will find the Spark of LIFE."
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"Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy."
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"Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up."
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"Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words."
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"In silence more work can be done. The true experience of bliss is without words."
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"The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God."
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"They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism."
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"Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the opressor."
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"Great souls endure in silence."
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"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."
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"What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?"
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"The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails."
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"A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides."
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