All my life I have longed to be alone in a place like this. Even when everything was going well, as it often did. I can say that much. That it often did. I have been lucky. But even then, for instance in the middle of an embrace and someone whispering words in my ear I wanted to hear, I could suddenly get a longing to be in a place where there was only silence. Years might go by and I did not think about it, but that does not mean that I did not long to be there. And now I am here, and it is almost exactly as I had imagined it. Per Petterson
Silence is the mother of truth.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Silence is a powerful tool.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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Napoleon Hill
In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75)
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Swami Satchidananda
The more silent is my mind, The more it speaks; Wisdom is a light divine, And its shadow a mystique!
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Neelam Saxena Chandra
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You decide for yourself when it will hurt.
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