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Life must be lived as play.
- Plato
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
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The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato
The price of apathy towards public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
Music and rhythm find their way
into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato
Love is a grave mental disease.
- Plato
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today, I Will Spend Time In Silence.
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows;
your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.
- Osho
Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink
his remedy in silence and tranquility.
- Khalil Gibran
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy
of this period of social transition
was not the strident clamor of the bad people,
but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself,
and know that everything in life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences,
all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"No comment" is a splendid expression.
I am using it again and again.
- Winston Churchill
Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
- Helen Keller
We will have to repent in this generation,
not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people,
but for the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Keep silence for the most part,
and speak only when you must,
and then briefly.
- Epictetus
We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass-
grows in silence; see the stars,
the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Silence is safer than speech.
- Epictetus
Music and silence combine strongly
because music is done with silence,
and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau
Music is the silence between the notes.
- Claude Debussy
New Year's eve is like every other night;
there is no pause in the march of the universe,
no breathless moment of silence among created things
that the passage of another twelve months may be noted;
and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening
that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.
- Hamilton Wright Mabie
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
Laughter gives us distance.
It allows us to step back from an event,
deal with it and then move on.
- Bob Newhart
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer
Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
Worrying is like a rocking chair,
it gives you something to do,
but it gets you nowhere.
- Glenn Turner
Laziness may appear attractive,
but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
It is not what we get.
But who we become, what we contribute...
that gives meaning to our lives.
- Tony Robbins
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Existence needs you.
Without you, something will be missing
in existence and nobody can replace it.
Thats what gives you dignity,
that the whole existence will miss you.
- Osho
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
God gives some more than others
because some accept more than others.
- Ernest Holmes
The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
- Khalil Gibran
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