“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” – Elbert Hubbard

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• "A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp. And the world seems so fresh as though it had all just come into existence….
• "Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.” -Oscar Wilde

"Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness" – Anonymous

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• "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends" -Martin Luther King Jr.
• "In the end, i will remember not the insults of my enemy, but the silence of my friends"- Napoleon Bonaparte
• "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers." – Khalil Gibran

When you find something beautiful — beyond all the words you have ever spoken can ever say — and that you can only greet it with silence. And then, slowly, you carve a smile – still marvelling at its beauty, in hopes that this time you will remember to live that moment a little bit longer.

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• The search for Reality is the most dangerous of undertakings, since it destroys the world in which you live – Nisargadatta
• "Stop acting so fucking wounded. The only person that can pick you up, push back your shoulders, wipe the tears, mend the broken bones, and get you out of your slump is you. Now go and live, there is so much to be happy about."
• “Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.” ― Natalie Babbitt

"Speak only if you can improve upon the silence."

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• i wander’d off by myself, in the mystical moist night air, and from time to time, look’d up in perfect silence at the stars. Walt Whitman
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• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein
• don’t mistake my silence for ignorance, don’t mistake my calmness for acceptance

“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.” ~ C.S. Lewis

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• "Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having." C.S. Lewis
• "The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered… -CS Lewis

"Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer" Javik (Mass Effect)

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• "Few conversations are as satisfying as a comfortable silence." -gosuprobe (Reddit comment)
• "Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion."-Maynard James Keenan
• My favorite by Oscar Wilde…

“We are not sure that words can always save lives, but we know that silence can certainly kill.” Dr. James Orbinski 1999 r/doctorswithoutborders

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• "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." – Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
• "To stand in silence…" – Abraham Lincoln
• "Don’t speak unless you can improve the silence"- Chinese proverb

"Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man." – Lain Duncan Smith

Most people don't understand what silence really means.

EDIT: His name is actually Ian Duncan Smith*. Google failed me.

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• theoatmeal.com’s take on religion
• "Hold, unhappy man…" -Epictetus OC
• Men never understand ‘the woman’, women never understand ‘the man’, therein lies the beauty of their being together. – Osho

Trust the one who can see these 3 things in you: Sorrow behind your smile, Love behind your anger, & Meaning behind your silence

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