Khalil Gibran Quotes, Silence Quotes, House Quotes

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. 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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The silence of the envious is too noisy.

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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.

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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

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I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

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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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But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

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What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

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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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And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.

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The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.

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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.

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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

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Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

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Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.

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