Quotes About Listening

May we all listen to what's really going on with our friends and loved ones. Listen and stand with them in their pain and their joy.

Communication is the breath or death of any relationship

There are times that all you need is someone who will listen to you without judging you — not telling you what you should have done or should do, but simply, listening to you

Seth put his ear against the door. I can't hear anything. There are probably ten of them patiently waiting on the far side, ready to pounce. Brownies are shrimps. All I'd need are some heavy boots, a pair of shin guards, and a weed whacker. The image made Kendra giggle.

But I do know that there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.

information, listening to every word with rapt attention. Now that she had established herself in the duke's household, the last thing

When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That's how we experience it with our friends and lovers. As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover. We talk in low tones about the things that matter... That is why Christ comes to us when our hearts and minds are still and silent.

She was a real quiet woman. But maybe we just weren't listening.

try a democratic environment. Ask your child's opinions, make them feel as though they matter and their feelings are valued. The same time and energy spent on an argument later can be spent listening to their opinions in the first place. When you take your child's feelings into consideration, when you ask their opinions, it makes them feel important even if they don't always get their way.

Why Women Are Wonderful Listeners In general, women are excellent listeners already. When a woman communicates, according to MRI scans, fully seven centers of her brain are involved. In men, it is only two. Men often listen halfheartedly to women, especially if the television is on. That's because men can only process one sensory input at a time. They cannot, for example, both watch television and listen to someone else speaking, which women can do much more easily.

Standing still at dusk Listen . . . in far distances The song of froglings!

We don't hear what someone said; we imagine what they meant.

When my children ask me what they should do, I say, "I don't know, honey." Or, "Here's what I did in a similar situation, and it worked for me. And you can always know that I'm here to listen and that I'm always going to love you, whatever decision you make. You'll know what to do. And also, sweetheart, you can't do it wrong. I promise you that." I finally learned to tell my children the truth.

If you are anything like me, you do a lot of listening to yourself everyday.

The true test of a relationship, Gert thought, is if you can tell someone the most boring story in the world about yourself, and they'll still have something to add.

Knowing the songs - and I'm still learning - lets one envision birds you can hear but can't see. And as always, the ability to envision what is just out of sight is more important than merely seeing what's right in front of you.

For the people in these pages who watch ad truly listen, who tell us what they are hearing in other voices that share our air, and in the silence.

Watch. Simply listen. They will not speak to us, but to one another they say much. Some of it, we hear. The rest is beyond words. I want to listen, to open to the possibilities.

is it really true that we can't afford one attack helicopter's worth of seed corn to listen to the stars?

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

Nature is not mute; it is man who is deaf.

Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God. Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls.

What she heard was a deep and pervasive silence.

The dead must heed them.