The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Silence
Your silence gives consent.
-Plato
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Nights in Rodanthe"
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"
The fruit of silence is prayer.
-Mother Teresa
Silence is a source of great strength.
-Lao Tzu "Lao Tzu"
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
-Adrienne Rich
"Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying"
I've never realized that I would learn, understand, and realize a lot of things from being silent
-Anonymous
