"We live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be 'filled' with initiatives, activity, sound; often there is not even time to listen and dialogue... Let us not be afraid to be silent outside and inside ourselves, so that we are able not only to perceive God's voice, but also the voice of the person next to us, the voices of others."

-- Pope Benedict XVI

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“I have decided to leave Cleaâ€™s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms of compacts, resolutions, covenants. It will be up to Clea to interpret my silence according to her own needs and desires, to come to me if she has need or not, as the case may be. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
“The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth....”
“There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”
“For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in peace-time, or by the homicidal passion of these same when war breaks out.”
“I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”
“Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.”
“My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.”
“I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.”

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