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Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
Waning Moon© European Southern Observatory with CCLicense The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring – and all of the acts...
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Quote for Today: Bo Burnham
Spiegel by Jaume Plensa taken at The Yorkshire Sculpture Park© Martin Lee with CCLicense Read this to yourself. Read it silently. Don’t move your lips. Don’t make a sound. Listen to yourself. Listen...
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Quote for Today: Gordon Hempton
Sunset on the Dunes, Great Sand Dunes National Park © Katherine McDaniel, 2015 Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything . . . It is the presence of time, undisturbed....
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Quote for Today:Norton Juster
Silence of the night © photo4jenifer with CCLicense Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you...
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Quote for Today: Lawrence Durrell
Evening by the Lake, Max Nonnenbruch Soon it will be evening and the clear night sky will be dusted thickly with Summer stars. I shall be here, as always, smoking by the water. I have decided to leave...
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Quote for Today: W.B. Yeats
Calm reflection on Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park © David Restivo, NPS with CCLicense We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their...
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Quote for Today: Thomas Merton
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm. ―Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island...
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Quote for Today: Virginia Woolf
For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of – to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being...
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Quote for Today: Philip K. Dick
© Forsaken Fotos with CCLicense Silence. It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if generated by a vast mill. It rose from the floor, up out of the...
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Quote for Today: Annie Dillard
It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum....
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Quote for Today: Italo Calvino
Hoy Ghost Panel, Great Gallery, Horseshoe Canyon, Katherine McDaniel, 2012 Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no...
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Quote for Today: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will...
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Quote for Today: Rainer Maria Rilke
But listen to the breath, the unbroken message that creates itself from the silence. It rushes towards you now, from those youthfully dead. Whenever you entered, didn’t their fate speak to you,...
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Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
“I live alone,” he said simply. “I live in the open. I hear the waves at night and see the black patterns of the pine boughs against the sky. With sound and silence and color and solitude, of course I...
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Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about the landscapes which I saw in dreams. My feet...
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Quote for Today: Beau Taplin
In the night, I am kept awake by the endless chatter of my inner self. I hear it speak softly of old hurts and fondly of past loves, while its demands and anxieties resound throughout me in...
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Quote for Today: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice,...
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Quote for Today: Diane Setterfield
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grow pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. ―Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale Image: Lonely child...
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Quote for Today: Herta Müller
I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently. ―Herta Müller, The Hunger Angel Public...
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Quote for Today: William Carlos Williams
We sit and talk, quietly, with long lapses of silence and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes which has no speech ―William Carlos Williams,...
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