Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.
-Richard Yates
"A Good School"
Quotations
Silence
Silence is the first door to spiritual eminence.
-A Spiritual Leader "Adi Sankara"
Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
-Rasheed Ogunlaru
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.
-Paul Brunton "Paul Brunton"
It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
-Dejan Stojanović
"The Sun Watches the Sun"
The fruit of silence is prayer.
-Mother Teresa
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
-Adrienne Rich
"Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying"
First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.
-Henri J.M. Nouwen
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
-Elbert Hubbard
