Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes, Music Quotes, Silence Quotes

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

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If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

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If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.

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Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

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Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

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While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

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Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.

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Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

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Mental happiness is more important than physical comfort. Physical comfort comes from the material. But material facilities cannot provide you with peace of mind.

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The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

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Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

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To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

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The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.

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I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

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God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.

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Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference

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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

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Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.

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Be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech.

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