Quotations about silence...

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.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. ~Author Unknown.

Words can make a deeper scar than silence can heal. ~Author Unknown.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The best answer to anger is silence. ~Author Unknown.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind. ~Sri Sathya Sai Baba.

Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arab Proverb

To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword. ~Samuel Johnson.

God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken,
And yet so profound, so loud, and so far,
It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken,
And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.
~Joaquin Miller.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays. ~Confucius.

Silence is a source of great strength. ~Lao Tzu.

Happiness is...

Daughter read my modest words,
Words that flow from a heart longing for a daughter’s smile.
A reply to your wailing cry
Happiness is not your tormented envy,
It is not a heart full of grieve,
And is surely not lamenting over your lost lover.
Happiness can never be found in a bereft and lost soul,
Neither can it be found in a bosom depleted of joy.
Happiness can never be gained or bought
For it is free and is achieved by only you.
Happiness is what you crave for every sunrise,
What you hope to find just as the sun sends its last rays,
And what you ponder about before you surrender to sleep.
Happiness is to know that you’re loved
By that person that you admire,
And when you know he is forever gone
You’re left with only those that you matter for.
So, happiness lies beyond the battlefield,
Beyond every fight, death and loss.
It lies deep, deep within you
And waits to be finally set free.
It is to live in splendor, in a world wiped out of sorrow
To know where you are, is the perfect place to be.
Then, stop weeping over what would have to be untrue
For there is a world full of what seems to be true!

~Maria Hajj.

NB: i'm not the one who wrote this poem it just happens to have the same name & i really liked the poem so i thought of adding it to my collection.

Flowers everywhere :)

Dedicated To my father who made this beautiful garden...

Contentment.