You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Silence
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
-Clarice Lispector
"The Passion According to G.H."
The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
-Criss Jami
It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
-Dejan Stojanović
"The Sun Watches the Sun"
When you connect to the silence within you; that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
-Stephen Richards
Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.
-Nicholas Sparks
"The Notebook"
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
-Thomas Merton
"No Man Is an Island"
