Nothing I Never Said Ever Did Me Any Harm.

(Today I ponder about silence in silence.)

"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. "

- Calvin Coolidge


That did not mean what others said about me cannot harm me if I said nothing.

- Ghostwise

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"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."

- Harvey Fierstein


I define myself in silence.

- Ghostwise

Are Both Wise Men & Fools Foolish?

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

- Cato the Elder


That is why wise men are wise men and fools are fools.

- Ghostwise

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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

-Charles Caleb Colton


Talk if you are wise, don't talk if you are foolish.
But neither wise men nor fools heed this advice.
So do you think both wise men and fools are foolish?

- Ghostwise

When Everything Hurts.

(I now returned to my "Roses" series. There are 48 images but I may not put them all up. I've posted 17 so far (including this). They were taken in a nursery just after a heavy rain, in a hurry under fading lights so did not appear as vibrant. But the little droplets of water and imperfections such as blemish make them more natural and beautiful in my opinion.)

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”

- C.S. Lewis


The ones who hurts knows that. Only he could not find the words and the someone he could speak to.

- Ghostwise

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You must live through the time when everything hurts.

- Stephen Spender


No matter how much it hurts, we must live through it for that is the only cure.

- Ghostwise

How Can I Reply To Silence?

The words the happy say
Are paltry melody
But those the silent feel
Are beautiful--

- Emily Dickinson


Can you hear the silence of my words?

- Ghostwise

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Sticks and stones are hard on bones.
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything.
But silence breaks the heart.

- Phyllis McGinley


I can reply to the harshest words
But how can I reply to silence?

- Ghostwise

The Music Of Silence.

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”

- Leopole Stokowski

Which is why, the best way to listen to music is to close our eyes, and to close our mind.

- Ghostwise

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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

- Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963), British writer


The sweetest sound in the entire universe is silence.

- Ghostwise