Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean. – Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
Say what you want to say, instead of what others want to hear. – Henry David Thoreau
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand, we listen to reply. – Stephen Covey
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say. – George R. R. Martin
A big lie is often easier to pronounce than a small truth. – Peter Sirius
A wise man fills his brain before emptying his mouth. – African Proverb
Do not speak unless what you have to say is better than silence. – Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
And who says that only the truth is real? The lie is as alive as the truth, if not more alive. – Ivan Turgenew
Anytime you stir up the past and deal with civil rights a lot of people say ‘Oh, well that’s a done deal, it’s over with,’ and that couldn’t be furthest from the truth. – Jeff Woodard
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. – Jean Cocteau
Truth disappears with the telling of it. – Lawrence Durrell
When you always want to someone to talk that means you are depressed.
The only people who are mad at you for speaking the Truth, are the people who are living a lie. Keep speaking the Truth.
When your inner self talks, listen.
Think before you speak. READ before you think.
