Top 67 Listen In Silence Quotes
#1. I don't argue; I listen in silence with love. My silence answers better than my voice.
Debasish Mridha
#2. Listen in silence to the whisper of the winds so that you may understand the song of your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
Mother Teresa
#4. Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#5. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.
T. S. Eliot
#6. I can listen no longer in silence.
I must speak to you by such means
As are within my reach.
You pierce my soul.
Jane Austen
#7. You can listen to the secrets of life
in the silence of night,
in the voice of the ocean,
in the beating of your heart.
Just listen with your soul.
Debasish Mridha
#8. It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives listen to god. It is not adviseable to cheat that which has no other stake than the deeps and brights of all man.
Kenneth Patchen
#9. I sometimes like to sit in the silence and darkness and listen to my heart shine.
Frank D. Gilroy
#10. To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a personal secret.
Teju Cole
#11. There is power in well-chosen words, and often there is equal power in silence. Learning when to talk and when to listen are among the most powerful skills you can develop.
Sharon Anthony Bower
#12. I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God
Soren Kierkegaard
#14. It is less distracting in the silence," she said. "Sustained silence allows one truly to listen to what is deep inside. We call it waiting in expectation.
Tracy Chevalier
#15. I fear silence because it leads me to myself, a self I may not wish to confront. It asks that I listen. And in listening, I am taken to an unknown place. Silence leaves me alone in a place of feeling. It is not necessarily a place of comfort.
Terry Tempest Williams
#16. In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth; we understand with greater clarity what it is we want to say and what we expect from others; and we choose how to express ourselves.
Pope Benedict XVI
#17. Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet only then can you detect, beyond the fatuous clamour, the silence of which the universe is made.
Samuel Beckett
#18. In the depth of silence
be speechless
to listen the song of life,
song of creation of life,
primordial song.
Be silent, and listen to your heart.
Can you hear
The song of life,
The song of love,
The song of creation?
Debasish Mridha
#19. Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die ... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.
Ashley Montagu
#20. Listen to your heart in silence and peace, as through fear you only channel fear.
Raphael Zernoff
#21. Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.
Catherine Doherty
#23. In silence, our senses come alive...
We see the beauty around us more clearly, learn to listen to the language of silence, touch and smell the earth so pure and taste the sweetness of the air we breathe.
Margo Vader
#24. Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
Samuel Beckett
#25. It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.
Jean Klein
#26. Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God
Jerome K. Jerome
#27. One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.
John O'Donohue
#28. To heal our world we must be silent; willing to listen to the roars of the wounded. We must teach eachother how to feel, only than can an entire nation grow in peace, as the war within will slowly diminish.
Nikki Rowe
#29. You need to listen to the silence in order to hear the messages from universe..because beyond the silence there's more sounds connecting you with universal powers..
Gayan Fonseka
#30. Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you.
Deepak Chopra
#31. In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!
Johannes Tauler
#32. To know him
If you want to know his heart, pay close attention to what angers him.
If you want to know his mind, listen for the words that linger in his silence.
If you want to know his soul, look to where his eyes are when you catch him smiling.
Lang Leav
#33. Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
#34. The voice incessantly quelled in the chorus of human voices will always be the voice of God. And given a reality of this magnitude, I would be well advised to cease my babbling and encourage those around me to do the same.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#35. I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.
Francisco Costa
#36. We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it.
Kim Basinger
#37. There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.
Wes Borland
#38. I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters.
Mother Teresa
#39. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Sylvia Plath
#40. If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.
Paulo Coelho
#41. We sit in silence for several minutes, and I listen to the sound of his breathing, surprised how something so simple can fill me with contentment.
Denise Grover Swank
#42. Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
Alice Hoffman
#43. For he who has once had to listen will listen always, whether he knows he will never hear anything again, or whether he does not. In other words, they like other words, no doubt about it, silence once broken will never again be whole.
Samuel Beckett
#44. To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you.
Eckhart Tolle
#45. There, in the silence that's never quite silent, I realized that, if there are at least seven thousand wants to speak, there are at least seven thousand ways to listen.
Mark Nepo
#46. Silence introduced in a society that worships noise is like the Moon exposing the night. Behind darkness is our fear. Within silence our voice dwells. What is required from both is that we be still. We focus. We listen. We see and we hear. The unexpected emerges.
Terry Tempest Williams
#47. I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made.
Sophie Blackall
#48. Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.
Susan Sontag
#49. I listen to the silence
and yearn to be more me,
swimming in the sea of myself,
learning eternally -
finding out where the rocks are
and smoothing them into sand.
Jay Woodman
#50. Listen to the night wind in the trees, Listen to the summer grass singing; Listen to the time that's tripping by, And the dawn dew falling. Listen to the moon as it climbs the sky, Listen to the pebbles humming; Listen to the mist in the trembling leaves, And the silence calling.
Ruskin Bond
#51. May, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered. (233)
Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen. (278)
Jacqueline Woodson
#52. Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
Sri Aurobindo
#53. You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to the music of the crowds; in solitude, listen to the music of the silence! Be neither afraid of the crowds, nor of the loneliness, because both are blessings!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. The son will not speak to her. She watches him, and she wants to tell him that he can put all his hate on her; she will take it all, if that's what he needs her to do. Listen, really listen, and that's what she is saying in her silence. The boy can't help but hear.
Justin Torres
#55. For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
#56. I never argue with a person; with love, I listen in deep silence.
Debasish Mridha
#57. Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.
Pope Benedict XVI
#58. She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.
Michael Ende
#59. ...when you sit in a forest everything appears still. But it isn't really. If you listen and watch closely, life is happening everywhere around you...In silence, life keeps raging on.
Katherine Holubitsky
#60. And perhaps one day, in after years, someone would wander there and listen to the silence, as she had done, and catch the whisper of the dreams that she had dreamt there, in midsummer, under the hot sun and the white sky.
Daphne Du Maurier
#61. If I didn't look too closely, I wouldn't see that Tiras wasn't there. If I didn't breathe too deeply, I wouldn't feel the hollow echo in my empty chest. If I didn't move too quickly, I wouldn't reach any painful conclusions. And if I didn't listen, I wouldn't hear the silence he always left behind.
Amy Harmon
#62. You have music in your heart; just listen in the deep silence to reveal it.
Debasish Mridha
#63. While sitting in the darkness in complete silence, I never realized how much there was to see and hear. There is sight and sound in darkness and silence. Learn to look and listen.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#64. In addition to listening to the audience's laugh, you want to listen to their silence. Is it bored or interested silence? The silence is quieter and filled with energy when they're interested. You can hear a pin drop. When they're bored, you can always hear it.
Franklyn Ajaye
#65. If we are to know the Lord, we must go to Him. Listen to Him in silence before the Tabernacle and approach Him in the Sacraments.
Pope Francis
#66. Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
Mother Teresa
#67. Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.
Robert Muller
