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“Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. In silence, we often say, we can hear ourselves think; but what is truer to say is that in silence we can hear ourselves not think....In silence, we might better say, we can hear someone else think.”

“Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.”

“Silence is the accomplice of wisdom. Truth is the accomplice of virtue. Laughter is the accomplice of happiness. Happiness is the accomplice of pleasure. Hope is the accomplice of strength. Patience is the accomplice of discipline. Humility is the accomplice of honor. Compassion is the accomplice of charity. Peace is the accomplice of fulfilment. Trust is the accomplice of devotion. Love is the accomplice of contentment. Loyalty is the accomplice of relationships. Equality is the accomplice of freedom. Justice is the accomplice of integrity. Certainty is the accomplice of conviction. Knowledge is the accomplice of intelligence. Understanding is the accomplice of reason. Discipline is the accomplice of mastery. Intelligence is the accomplice of achievement. Fate is the accomplice of chance. Purpose is the accomplice of destiny. Light is the accomplice of the universe. God is the accomplice of life.”

“Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!”

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another.”

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule. Not William the Silent only, but all the considerable men I have known, and the most undiplomatic and unstrategic of these, forbore to babble of what they were creating and projecting. Nay, in thy own mean perplexities, do thou thyself but hold thy tongue for one day: on the morrow, how much clearer are thy purposes and duties; what wreck and rubbish have those mute workmen within thee swept away, when intrusive noises were shut out! Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal. Speech too is great, but not the greatest. As the Swiss Inscription says: Sprecfien ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden (Speech is silvern, Silence is golden); or as I might rather express it: Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.”