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Quotes About Silence

The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go...When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.
~ Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
The world is quiet here.
~ Lemony Snicket
Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
~ Pope John Paul II
I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than you are now.
~ Sara Teasdale
Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
~ Gautama Buddha
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There are strange moments in life when the mind rests without any kind of worries. When our mind is quiet, when our mind is in silence, then the new arrives.
~ Samael Aun Weor
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
~ Rachel Carson
The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.
~ Gunilla Brodde Norris
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
~ William Drummond
Remember what peace there may be in silence.
~ Max Ehrmann
For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.
~ Dave Barry
Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence.
~ J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
~ Ben Jonson
After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.
~ Emily Dickinson
Three can hold their peace, if two be away.
~ George Herbert
It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.
~ Gerald Stern
Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep
~ Edward Hoagland
A key to life is knowing what to ignore and when to shut up. :)
~ Lisa Bedrick, Relationships
If we take the time to silence the chatter in our minds, it gives our heart the opportunity to awaken from its slumber. Peace of mind begins with peace in the heart.
~ Molly Friedenfeld