Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.
-- Socrates
(Cluj, Romania)
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Mother's Days Cards You Might Find in the Cosmere
Happy Mother's Day! If Cosmere characters gave Mother's Days cards to their moms, here's some that might exist.
1.
Mothers...they give you life
And they can take it away
You tried to kill me,
But you're still my mum.
Happy Mother's Day!
2.
You were my favorite aunt
And then you married my dad
Now you're my favorite aunt-mom
Happy Mother's Day, Aunt Navani!
3.
For all the love you've given me
For all of your caring, all of your warmth
There is no other name I can call you
But Mom
Happy Mother's Day!
(But seriously, what IS your name??)
4.
I know you won't accept labels like "Best Mother in the World"
Because you say the data is lacking
But the kids got this card, and they meant it
Happy Mother's Day, Steris!
5.
Giving birth isn't the only way to be a mother
You found me traumatized under the floorboards
And now you're my mom
Happy Mother's Day, Silence!
6.
There is nothing more inherently special about a woman who chooses to be a mother than a woman who chooses to do any of the other limitless things that a woman can choose to do with her life.
Nor is motherhood more inherently special than other things that a mother might choose to do with her life.
But not being more inherently special does not preclude being special.
And you are special.
Happy Mother's Day!
Love,
Jasnah
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Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence."
Rumi
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God's grace wanders at night among the fields of the soul
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Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares written in February 1950
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Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Hasan Javadi & Susan Sallée, from Another Birth: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad; "Let us believe in the beginning of a cold season"
[Text ID: "I am naked, naked, naked / naked like the moments of silence / between the phrases of love"]
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Distance, silence, peace.
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Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters
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“I'm a master of speaking silently, all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence”.
–Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit.
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It seemed more honest to remain silent.
Ingeborg Bachmann, quoted by R. Kolewe in 'Afterletters: From an essay on desire'
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