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“Her silences spoke louder than her words, and the one that followed merely reprised what I already knew without providing any connecting bits to help me make a song of the scattered verses. [RICHARD ETHERIDGE, referring to his mother]”

Book:Black Cloud Rising

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“With my veil I put my faith on display—rather than my beauty. My value as a human is defined by my relationship with God, not by my looks. I cover the irrelevant. And when you look at me, you don’t see a body. You view me only for what I am: a servant of my Creator. You see, as a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.”

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Book:Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

Source: Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

“Going inward through meditation was as frightening as being lost in the woods. I was afraid that dark thoughts—guilt, blame, self-pity—would emerge from the shadows of the recesses of my mind where I had pushed them.”

Silence Meditation Journey Reflection Fears

Book:Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“It is far better to say nothing than to utter a thousand words that say the same thing that silence would have said. For in the end, you will have saved a ton of time and a whole lot of credibility.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“With me he [Lamin] would wait till I finished each sentence, and leave long gaps of silence before he replied, silences I came to think of as conversational graveyards, where anything awkward or unpleasant I might have presented to him was sent to be buried.”

Silence Awkwardness Unpleasantness

Book:Swing Time

Source: Swing Time

“Stand still. But not like Lot’s wife.” (From a talk on her book *Seeking God, Seeking Life*, (YouTube video), St Paul’s, London, May 19, 2013)”

Silence Stillness Pauses Stand Still

Author:Esther de Waal

“Words are defiant in silence.”

Silence Revolution Anger Words Quote Of The Day Anthony T Hincks The Prophet Avocatorium Defiant

Author:Anthony T. Hincks

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