Quotes About Listening

When you listen to nature, it may still be difficult to live a life, but it's inspiring.

You can't go through life not listening to music.

You saved Dad's life. If anyone's got the right to eavesdrop on him, it's you.

I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.

If you want to talk about it with someone, then I'm happy to listen, or try and help, but you should only tell me if you want to.

He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves, offering more information than they had originally intended to give.

We ought to be silent and listen to the voice of God.

Before you talk to the world, talk to yourself. And, before you listen to the world, listen to yourself.

when words make noise, silence can talk.

Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.

So many parents think they always need to teach their children about life, when in fact, if they listened once in a while, they would learn from their kids what life is truly about.

The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that's only if you're very lucky. And you listen very hard.

Life is too short to listen to fools, and too important to ignore the wise.

silence can be words but words cannot be silence

Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.

In a company of children and grown-ups, the latter are those who should demonstrate good manners and always let the children speak first.

One of the reasons empathy works so well is because it does not require a solution.

When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen… I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servant girls in the kitchen.

Sabrina fair,Listen where thou art sittingUnder the glassy, cool, translucent wave,In twisted braids of lilies knittingThe loose train of thy amber-dropping hair;Listen for dear honor's sake,Goddess of the silver lake,Listen and save.

Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.

One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.

People say I love you all the time - when they say, 'take an umbrella, it's raining,' or 'hurry back,' or even 'watch out, you'll break your neck.' There are hundreds of ways of wording it - you just have to listen for it, my dear.