“Silence isn’t empty, it’s full of answers.”— @96l, 96l.tumblr.comTagged: Silence, Tumblr Quotes, Zen, Perspective
“Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it.”— Richard Brautigan, amazon.comTagged: Zen, Inner Peace, Important, Silence, Self-Discovery
“Flee humanity. Get yourself to the nearest woods, desert, pond, river, lake, or field where there are very few people. If you live in a city and transportation out of the city is impossible, find an abandoned stairwell. Just sit there. Take in the glory of silence, of emptiness, the way there is no…”— Melissa Broder, vice.comTagged: Addicted To Your Phone, Nature Lovers, Silence, Social Media Is Bad, Alone
“I’m learning so many different ways to be quiet. There’s how I stand in the lawn, that’s one way. There’s also how I stand in the field across from the street, that’s another way because I’m farther from people and therefore more likely to be alone. There’s how I don’t answer the phone, and how I so…”— Ada Limon, amazon.comTagged: Social Anxiety, Quiet, Silence, Loner
“Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying, I don’t know how to speak to you. I don’t know what you’re thinking. Talk to me. Tell me everything you’ve ever said. All the words. Starting from the very first one.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.comTagged: Social Anxiety, Silence
“Sometimes only a calm presence and compassionate listening are necessary.”— Stan Goldberg, nytimes.comTagged: Communication, Compassion, Empathy, Silence, Listening
“But you see, there is a graveyard in my mouth filled with words that have died on my lips.”— Emily Palermo, starredsoul.tumblr.comTagged: Depression, Communication, Acceptance, Silence
“It feels good to be silent in the midst of gossip and at peace in the middle of a heated political debate. It's empowering to forgive myself quickly and move forward with ease. It feels great to be a presence of love in the world.”— Gabby Bernstein, amazon.comTagged: self, Silence, Self & Identity, Solitude, solitary
“Silence is an art, a tool of the wise. When we perfect the art of silence, chances are that we will get a lot more done.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.comTagged: Silence
“I find myself walking softly on the right undergrowth beneath the trees, not wanting to crack a twig, to crush or disturb anything in the least--for there is such a sense of stillness and peace that the wrong sort of movement, even one's very presence, might be fest as an intrusion, and, so to speak…”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.comTagged: sound, Forest, Nature, Natural, Trees
“To truly know someone is to know the silence that stands for the thing they never speak of.”— Robert Brault, goodreads.comTagged: Knowing Someone, Familiarity, Silence
“When Jesus was nailed to the cross — and hung there in torment - he cried out — "God, my God! Why hast thou forsaken me?" He cried out as loud as he could. He thought that his heavenly father had abandoned him. He believed everything he'd ever preached was a lie. The moments before he died, Christ w…”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.comTagged: Doubt, Hardship, test, Silence
“I don't go into town anymore. I bring out the emergency in people and I don’t know why. When I speak, women fall sick and stars drop like dead birds from the night. My home, instead, is on a ridge where horses bow their heads and bear the elements. Alone, I conduct experiments. I communicate with st…”— Austen Leah Rosenfeld, narrativemagazine.comTagged: Poetry, poem, Silence, Strong Women, Bold Women
“Silence is as destructive as it is contagious.”— Liz Meriwether, thecut.comTagged: Silence, Opression, Speak Up, Use Your Voice, Quote of the Moment
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”— Elbert Hubbard, goodreads.comTagged: Silence, Communication, Understanding Another Person
“It all adds up to one thing: peace, silence, solitude. The world and its noise are out of sight and far away. Forest and field, sun and wind and sky, earth and water, all speak the same language.”— Thomas Merton, amazon.comTagged: Peace, Silence, Solitude, Life, Language
“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.”— Marianne Moore, amazon.comTagged: Silence, Feelings
“Practicing silence means making a commitment to take a certain amount of time to simply Be.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.comTagged: Silence, Dedication, decision, Being, self awareness
“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.comTagged: Silence, senses, Hearing
“You can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”— Chaim Potok, amazon.comTagged: Silence, learnings, Listening
“There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t even wait, be completely quiet and alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can’t do otherwise; in raptures it will writhe before you.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.comTagged: inspiration, Silence, Solitude, Reflection
“It’s quiet now. So quiet that you can almost hear other people’s dreams.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.comTagged: Silence, Quiet Time, Hush, peace is for dreams
“To hear, one must be silent...”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.comTagged: Hear, Hearing, Listen, Listening, Silence
“Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands.”— Pico Lyer, content.time.comTagged: Silence, Comfort, Deep Thoughts
“What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.”— Claude Monet, goodreads.comTagged: heart, Colorful, Silence
“I think communication starts when words are not present at all. I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important”— Marina Abramovic, theodysseyonline.comTagged: Communication, Silence, Feelings, Quiet, Language
“Silence is always beautiful, and a silent person is always more beautiful than one who talks.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.comTagged: Peaceful, Silence, Introvert
“Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else.”— Peter Ackroyd, amazon.comTagged: Silence, Gaps
“After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend to its strange and beautiful texture, which of course, it was impossible to express in words. I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to ent…”— Karen Armstrong, amazon.comTagged: Silence, Introversion, Introspection