I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
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Andrew Solomon
Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.
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Roy T. Bennett
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
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Jean Kerr
Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs. Giggles can spread from person to person. So can blushing. But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.
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Vera Nazarian
Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes.
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Amit Kalantri
More Quotes By Joseph Brodsky
Life–the way it really is–is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.
... Now to die of griefwould mean, I'm afraid, to die belatedly, while latecomersare unwelcome, particularly in the future....
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
