So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days, you can hear their chorus rushing past: IwasabeautifulgirlPleasedon’tgoItoobelievemybodyismadeofglass-I’veneverlovedanyoneIthinkofmyselfasfunnyForgiveme….There was a time when it wasn’t uncommon to use...
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Nicole Krauss
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Epictetus
Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of conversation. If the former seems far-fetched, consider the latter: even if someone is listening to your story, and really hearing, that person will disappear from existence in...
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Jennifer Michael Hecht
It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.
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Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk.
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Doug Larson
More Quotes By Zeno Of Citium
If being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like
Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
