Quotes About Engagement

Those who sat with him saw his eyes go moist when they spoke about something horrible, or crinkle in delight when they told him a really bad joke. He was always ready to openly display the emotion so often missing from my baby boomer generation. We are great at small talk: 'What do you do?' 'Where do you live?' But really listening to someone -- without trying to sell them something, pick them up, recruit them, or get some kind of status in return -- how often do we get this anymore?

Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.

Yes. But there's a better approach. To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

He had a way of looking you in the eye and making you feel the world had stopped and you were all that was in it.

Don't assume it is too late to get involved.

To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time... That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

If I can't see them or hear them, how can I help them?

I believe in being fully present, Morrie said. That means you should be with the person you're with. When I'm talking to you now, Mitch, I try to keep focused only on what is going on between us. I am not thinking about something we said last week. I am not thinking of what's coming up this Friday. I am not thinking about doing another Koppel show, or about what medications I'm taking. I am talking to you. I am thinking about you.

Jack," she said, "I just spoke to our son." "Mr. Harding to see Ron Jennings.

You cannot talk when you first arrive. He smiled. It helps you listen.

You're starting conversations You don't even know the topic

She listened to me speak with a series of smiles, as though she were sipping at my descriptions and finding them to her taste

The biggest lesson is you get the country you work for. If you sit back and simply allow your country to be, it is highly unlikely to be the kind of country you want. You have to be active.

I read it over and over again, until I notice the paper getting wet, the ink blurring into little flowers.

to read a novel is to engage in probably the second-largest single act of pleasure-based data transfer that can take place between two human beings

phones themselves have the innate power of distancing one from one's physical surroundings, which accounted for part of it

kind of service, Maxine thought

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

Quand je danse, je danse. Quand je dors, je dors.

For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them …

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

When you buy a book, you establish a property right in it, just as you do in clothes or furniture when you buy and pay for them. But the act of purchase is actually only the prelude to possession in the case of a book. Full ownership of a book only comes when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it—which comes to the same thing—is by writing in it.

To use a good book as a sedative is conspicuous waste.

Reading well, which means reading actively, is thus not only a good in itself, nor is it merely a means to advancement in our work or career. It also serves to keep our minds alive and growing.