Quotes About Listening

There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.

Tot està dit, però jo encara espero aquell tren que ha de dur-me no sé on, potser enlloc, i confio de trobar-hi algun amable viatger que escolti pacientment les meves confidències.

If you see someone struggling with sadness, anxiety, and negativity, listen to his story. You'll soon see he's living in a world where all he sees are things to blame because he lives without positive meanings for what happened to him. Then only cure is to restore the sense that there is a good reason for everything that happens.

If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him the answer to the question. If you don't know anyone, call the operator and tell him. Most people don't know that the operator has to listen, it is a law. Also, the postman is not allowed to go inside your house, but you can talk to him on public property for up to four minutes or until he wants to go, whichever comes first.

It occurred to me that everyone's story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

Maybe he wouldn't say anything, which is the worst thing men do.

I wish there were a class where we could just keep going around the circle. around and around, until we had finally said everything about ourselves.

the skills of good listening are generally not taught to trainees in the art of psychotherapy. The would-be therapist learns to theorize and analyze, to diagnose and prognosticate, to interpret and interrogate. But not to listen.

The scribe is regarded as one who hears, For the hearer becomes a doer.

Quand on sait entendre, on parle toujours bien.

The way of Friends is to think quietly and to listen. We ask the question, we consider how the answer is made by different people, we ask again, answer again, change our minds; we reach an understanding. The Meeting evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, not by the weight of the majority, but by the capacity of individual human beings to comprehend one another.

Sometimes," she murmured, "on cold, starry nights in Minnesota, if you stand really still and listen really hard . . . you'll freeze solid.

All this I told Juniper, and she listened in the quiet, dispassionate way she had when you told her something truly terrible. It was as if she was joining things together in her mind, making some act of love and healing where otherwise all was violence and despair.

I listened, he'll answer, and his father will realize how ardently he'd paid attention all along, how carefully he observed, how hard he tried. He will tell his father that the morning chorus sounded like something rising out of the breath it took away.

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

Refusing to hear an opposing point of view is a sign of weakness, not strength.

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. One is by responding to her, the other is to keep quiet. They all dont work.

Conceal your heart, control your mouth. Beware of releasing the restraints in you; Listen if you want to endure in the mouth of the hearers. Speak after you have mastered the craft.

You asked me whether I was afraid, but to be afraid or sad doesn't mean one is making a mistake. it just means one is not listening carefully enough.

When I am dead, even then, I will still love you, I will wait in these poems, When I am dead, even then I am still listening to you.

THEN When I am dead, even then, I will still love you, I will wait in these poems, When I am dead, even then I am still listening to you. I will still be making poems for you out of silence; silence will be falling into that silence, it is building music.