Quotes About Silence

To borrow Julia Creet's phrase, maybe "memory is where we have arrived rather than where we have left." ... I used to think I was a transcriber of my own experiences and memories, adding an image here and there, but now I think I am more of a shaper. I take small fragments of image, memory, silence, and thought, and shape them with imagninary hands into something different.

can't hold my tongue.

Remain quiet. Don't feel you have to talk all the time. Go within and you will see the Loveliness behind all beauty.

Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

Silence is bringing you back home, and it gives you that much needed energy to realize 'Who You Are', to realize that there is bliss, there is beauty, there is joy, and that is 'You'

Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.? You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold?, comes at long last over everyone.

There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

The best things can't be told.

You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

Zen has no business with ideas.

You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.

The moment you feel like you need to prove yourself, is the moment you need to be silent and walk away.

Turn your car into a monastery.

It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.' 'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.' 'You can hear radio waves?' 'Of course not. Nobody can hear radio waves,' he said unconvincingly.

Death says a million words that the heart can't pen.

Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.

Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.

Never miss a chance to shut up

Never pass by a chance to shut up.