1030 – “Your work is not to drag the world kicking and screaming into a new awareness. Your job is to simply do your work… sacredly, secretly, silently… and those with eyes to see and ears to hear, will respond.”

-anonymous

917 – “When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.”

-Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi [Attributed, likely apocryphal]

371 – “I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”

–James Madison, 4th President of the United States of America [See Source Notes for context of this quote]

343 – “When someone is going through a storm, your silent presence is more powerful than a million empty words.”

–Thema Davis

109 – “I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”

– Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi [See Source Notes for full poem]