Never underestimate wisdom in silence, proof isn't always a mouthful of words.
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Sometimes the most appropriate response to an attack is to not engage, especially in situations where your own words may be used as weapons against you.
The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father whether heaven was crying, he couldn't bring himself to reply. Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not yet learned to stifle with words.
I don't have kids or even that many friends, but if I did, I'd want my lasting impression on them to be this: Every life matters, but never one more than another. Sometimes silence holds more meaning than words. And love ... it's infinitely impossible to define, but unequivocally, without any doubt, the reason we are here.
It was the way she looked at me the whole time. That look said more than she ever could and, in turn, scared me more than her words alone ever could.
Sleeping in the simple small cottage rather than hotels... and under the billion stars is one of the breathtaking experience... pause, breath, nothingness moment is what gives meaning to my busy existence, that life is felt in silence, in that moment when what you see before you can no longer be conveyed with words...
Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeling: some by silence, some by words.
When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates.
Those who don't understand your silence,Will never understand your words
When you understand silence, you understand words; when you understand words, you understand silence. When you think of silence, you think of words. Until you mistakenly utter bad words, you shall never appreciate the real essence of silence that can speak better at the most tempting moment. Until you miss the opportunity when you should have spoken whilst you kept silent, you shall never value the real value and the timing of words. A good orator knows the right time and timing to blend words and silence in oration. A good orator is good because of words and silence.
When silence greets you, listen for those powerful words lost within the void of reason...
_____________________" I'm lost for words.
Let us use words carefully, because words can betray and kill.( "A gap of silence")
Soon he essentially stopped talking. "I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode," he mentioned. Eventually, he was down to uttering just five words, and only to guards: yes; no; please; thank you. "I am surprised," he wrote, "by the amount of respect this garners me. That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.
Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.
A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence.
My mother and Alexis had said no more than ten words to each other. The long silences were deafening
Because sometimes silence speaks much louder than words possibly could.