#silence

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#born #deep #hearts #joy #silence

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

#bridle #cometh #destroy #guard #lest

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do. ↗

— William Drummond

#child #everything #expresses #loudly #love

I love silence. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

#i love #love #silence

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#breathe #cannot #eat #exist #forever

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. ↗

— John Cage

#cannot #empty #empty space #fact #hear

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#better #deep #eternity #good #lies

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#does #finer #silence #tale #tells

The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph. When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written. ↗

— Henry Miller

#chaos #henry-miller #music #reality #reality-of-life

During the summer I meditated outside in nature. Listening to the wind with the ears are like listening to mere noise, but listening to the wind blowing through the trees from the inner silence and being one with the wind is like listening to the celestial music. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#life #meditation #silence #trees #winf