X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Silence embeds thoughts better than speeches. If you are afraid of silence, you are afraid of your thoughts.

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75)

We all need something that takes us out of day to day and reminds us that it’s all ok.”Ian Tucker

Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions.

Your silences remain; they are your biggest mask.

We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.

An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

To often we speak just to hear the sound of our own voice, when we should speak only when the words are sweeter than silence.

Dear Heavenly Father, We pray for those who are living silence, locked in the room of depression to where they are taking their own lives. This is the enemy trying to take souls away before they can hear “The Word” and accept it. We pray for a breakthrough, and a releasing from the enemies grip,...

I believe in destiny Angel. I believe every choice I’ve made has brought me closer to you. I looked for you for a very long time. I may have fallen from heaven, but I fell for you.

When we keep our silence we gather our power; when we speak we let loose the concentration of quiet reverie.

In silence there is a perfection which any toil injures.

We sit, silent, the comfortable way only good friends can sit.

In the meantime the strike is over, with a remarkably low loss of life. All is quiet, they report, all is quiet.In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away...

Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.

Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin.Wanting a man who was sin itself.

Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes the dullness came to the fore with a strange and insistent ache which he would entertain briefly, but learn to keep at bay. Mostly, however, it was the contentment he entertained;...

[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence.

She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once static and evocative. This was because she knew few words and believed in none, and in the world she was rather silent, contributing just her share of urbane humor with a precision that...

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I see myself abandoned, solitary, thrown into a cell without dimensions, where light and shadows are silent phantoms. Within my inner self I find the silence I am seeking. But it leaves me so bereft of any memory of any human being and of me myself, that I transform this impression into the certainty of...

Silence is sometimes said too much.

After that, I became kind of fascinated by her and by what I guessed was her ability to hear music in the silence. Back then, I’d wanted to be able to do that, too. So I took to watching her play, and though I told myself the reason for my attention was because she was...

Love has a sound, if you know what to listen for. It sounds like silence, surrounded by blindness. It’s the Helen Keller of emotions, at least for me.

sometimes being silent is the best way to appreciate the moment

When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me.

Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a question you’ve been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full...

Nothing succeeds like Detached success.

Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world’s dawning. In such suspension, before every utterance on earth, there is a cloud, an almost immobile air. The plants already breathe, while we still ask ourselves how to speak to each other, without taking breath away from...

So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it all in, she would never have to learn the dirtiness that was forever inside me–the bad, the ugly, the twisted. She could go on living her life happy, just like she deserved.

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

I don’t want to stand in naked silence, pathetically unaware of how to be.

Un livre est un peu de silence entre les mains du lecteur.Celui qui écrit calme.Celui qui le lit ne rompt pas le silence.

Sharing silence between us. Sometimes is all you can share.

I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I’m sleeping.

Healing is the way of the heart. This book is an invitation to open our heart. Healing is a love affair with life.Healing is pure love. Love is what creates healing. Spiritual healing is to be one with ourselves. And to be one with ourselves is to be in joy.Healing is to develop our inner...

When we embrace the opposites within ourselves and understand that inner harmony arises when they mature, we find the love, joy, silence and freedom that are hidden in every moment. It is my experience that it is through the inner female side that we find the depth within ourselves – independent of if we are...

I’m all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no sky for their dispersing, coming together to say, fleeing one another to say, that I am they, all of them, those that merge, those that part, those that never meet, and nothing else, yes, something else, that...

Words were his delight; Hers, a gay gracefulnessOf dancing and moving. But when to the place Of deep loving (Starlight at midnight)At last they came, Their full communion And consummation,Their complete sphere,Was stillness for her,Silence for him.

Your silence is loudest to those who love you most.

A radio was playing quietly. Nobody was listening. It was there to drown out the silence.

And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.

The reality is, no matter what youwere told, whatever happened to youas a child was not legally or morallyyour fault. Abused children are instilled with guilt regarding their”participation.” It’s an especiallycomplex issue if the abuser is a family member. The child is told and believes that by his word his family will disintegrate, or harm...

I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.

Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the outdoor world; and talking leads almost inevitably to smoking, and then farewell to nature as far as one of our senses is concerned. The only friend to walk...

A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.