As winter approaches, it may feel good to stretch into this time of year, lean into it, feel its quietness, solitude, and peacefulness, such peace.
I encourage you to find solace in the silence, make that happen for yourself this time of year. I am including many inspirational quotations about silence below. Peace, mj -- True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~William Penn Silence is the true friend that never betrays. ~Confucius An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind. ~Walter Bagehot Silence is a source of great strength. ~Lao Tzu Silence is the universal refuge.... ~Henry David Thoreau Accustomed to the veneer of noise ... society is suspicious of those who value silence. ~John Lahr I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes. ~Richard Steele In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. ~Mahatma Gandhi Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time. ~Thomas Carlyle Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arab Proverb Silence was never written down. ~Italian Proverb Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep. ~Edward Hoagland Nature and silence go better together. ~Astrid Alauda You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind. ~Sri Sathya Sai Baba Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. ~Peter Minard Silence is more musical than any song. ~Christina Rossetti Nothing is more useful than silence. ~Menander of Athens Silence is a sounding thing, to one who listens hungrily. ~Gwendolyn Bennett Silence is the mother of truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of. ~D.M. Thomas We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence. ~Proverb Silence is the secret to sanity. ~Astrid Alauda There are times when silence has the loudest voice. ~Leroy Brownlow Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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