The human heart yearns for the beautiful

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are God's gift to all alike.

~ by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Silence can contain within it all the music that can be played, for all of it emerges from silence. A word is a note. Silence is a symphony.

~ from IN SPEECH AND SILENCE by David J. Wolpe