Quotes About Listening

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

A loving wife hears even what goes unsaid.

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesnt say.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Don't be so busy 'working' for God that you don't do what God has asked you to do.

Sophie McClellen," Clay said so grimly, it got her undivided attention. "Yes, Clay?" She was surprised she had such an obedient tone at her disposal. "If you can't keep your mouth shut, what's say we talk about what you were doing up here when I told you to stay in the house and rest!" He'd started out whispering, but by the time he was done, he'd built to a roar.

Surely by now you've heard it all a dozen times." "I like hearing about your dream though. It's nice. Tell me again.

You can't sass me when you're holding your mouth closed.

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

Hear the language that isn't spoken, for everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind it.

His eyes narrowed as if contemplating the gravity of the unforgivable. That was what I both hated and loved about Rafe. He challenged me on everything I said, but he also listened intently. He listened as if every word I said mattered.

Hear the language that isn't spoken, Kazi, the breaths, the pauses, the fisted hands, the vacant stares, the twitches and tears, for everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind them. " - Pg 207

For everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind them.

Stop cutting me off!" he yelled. The steel of his eyes sparkled with warning. "The least you can do is give me a chance to speak! We're gonna talk!

Listen. Hear the language that isn't spoken, for everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind them.

Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening.

Listening is the highest form of courtesy.' When you show interest, understanding and response to someone, you are giving that person a rare and valuable gift.

He sincerely believed that the closest one could come to objective truth was reading and listening and trying to understand as many viewpoints as possible.

It's been my experience that presence and silence are most helpful," she says. "Be there without judgment or advice to listen when he is ready to talk.

Now I predict the future / merely by listening to echoes. A slamming door / can tell you everything you need to know. It's not a trick / only a simple matter of wisdom, an obsessive attention / to dreams. — Mary Jo Bang, from "The Oracle," Apology for Want: Poems . (Middlebury; 1st edition July 15, 1997)

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

Questions are an under-used piece of communication in our culture.

My mother knew when to listen and when to pray and when to help. I wonder hoy many people knew the compassion Mary Finlayson held for them and how hard, in the privacy of her God Box, she prayed for them and their struggles.