The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Silence
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
-Simon Van Booy
"Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories"
When you connect to the silence within you; that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
-Stephen Richards
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!
-Mehmet Murat Ildan
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-Benjamin Franklin
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
-Clarice Lispector
"The Passion According to G.H."
