Quotes About Listening

Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.

I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don't trust. Yet I listen to my thoughts and follow my feelings.

You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt, I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.

The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.

Oh. That. I stopped listening and just stared at your lips instead, which are quite beautiful, by the way. But I could tell you weren't going to say anything I wanted to hear, so I just ignored you.

Act like you know what you are doing, listen hard, and eventually you will know what you are doing.

Growing spiritually and receiving answers to our questions depends upon our ability to feel, hear, and understand the whisperings of the Spirit. It is worth engaging in a spiritual wrestle to learn to receive personal revelation, because we can know what is true only when the Spirit bears witness to both our hearts and minds in the way only the Holy Ghost can.

You know when people say fine, it generally means 'leave me the hell alone because I don't want to talk about what's really bothering me.' (Susan)

Keeping it short and to the point is essential, otherwise he won't hear a single word.

When you nag, you become the problem, and he deals with it by tuning you out. But when you don't nag, he deals with the problem.

Now let me hear some details about dogs and lake." He gave her an account of the night. She listened attentively, though her knitting needles never stopped clicking. He loved that gentle, rhythmic sound. Although . . . perhaps that was simply because it waseasier to admit that he loved the sound rather than that he loved the woman.

Leighton was used to letting women talk. Whether by temperament or by the requirement to be amiable, women talked, their speech the unguent that greased the gears of polite society.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' makes us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

Every time you check your phone in company, what you gain is a hit of stimulation, a neurochemical shot, and what you lose is what a friend, teacher, parent, lover, or co-worker just said, meant, felt.

The real emergency may be parents and children not having conversations or sharing a silence between them that gives each the time to bring up a funny story or a troubling thought.

You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.