Listening Quotes

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. (attr to J. Isham)

~ Sura Hart

Instead of seeing how much pain I can dish out towards those I disagree with, or who I believe have done me wrong, I seek to follow the golden rule and use my words and behavior to create more of what the world needs – love, compassion, and connection.

~ Aspen Baker

Let those feelings out. Talk about it. Even if you’re talking to your journal by yourself in an empty room. That still counts. That still matters.If you know someone who’s struggling and isolated, help them talk about it. Even if they don’t have the right words. Even if you sit in silence as they try to feel safe. Even if they shower you with complaints, excuses, and justifications. Even if you can see they’re just playing small, being irrational, blaming circumstances. Just be there. It all counts. It all matters.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Truly listening, attentively, and with care, is one of the simplest and most kind gifts we can give anyone.

~ John Bruna

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

~ Criss Jami

I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice.

~ Aspen Baker

Listening is the best way to complement and value others opinion.

~ Debasish Mridha

The girl was kind in a special way; when you spoke to her, she seemed to stop thinking of whatever she been thinking and listened to you altogether.

~ Ellery Queen

The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.

~ Tara Brach

When listening to the lightning storms in your area on a standard AM radio, you will hear a sound like bacon frying and this is the electromagnetic energy that the storm is generating. Plants react to this energy and may show vigorous growth during lightning seasons.

~ Steven Magee

You are being guided when you need it most — if you will just listen.

~ Bryant Mcgill

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

~ Brenda Ueland

Sometimes, the most healing thing we can do for another human being, is to listen to them, just ... LISTEN.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, you can hear them echoing forever within the second sphere.

~ J.m. Coetzee

How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desires, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires. And is there any other form of listening? Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby? Listening has importance only when on is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens. Can one put aside all these screens through which we listen, and really listen?

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn’t the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these moments of profound human presence, we are awakened to the divine presence and see that the kingdom of God is coming and yet is already here.

~ Richard Rohr

Never underestimate the value of advice from anyone, whether they are younger or older than you. Wisdom is not categorised under age

~ Unarine Ramaru

An advice is truly valuable when people not just give it their ears but also their obedience.

~ Amit Kalantri

Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

May you hear the voice of wisdom.Listening, may you act with trust.

~ Charlene Costanzo

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.

~ Ralph G. Nichols

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Listening with the focus of actually understanding what the other person is trying to communicate is priceless, a talent that everyone possesses but not something that is practiced enough.

~ Christine Marie Bryant

The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel.

~ Akilnathan Logeswaran

He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense.

~ Thomas Szasz

One must find rhythms others’ ears don’t hear.

~ David Anthony Durham

I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.

~ Courtney Milan

The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.

~ Steve Goodier

I guess he had listened to more beefs and more problems from more people than any of us. A guy that'll really listen to you, listen and care about what you're saying, is something rare.

~ S.e. Hinton

Unfortunately most people do not listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the intent to reply.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can’t hide from what they sense they’re about to hear, it’s always too late.

~ Javier Marías

They tell me to be quietWhen I’d rather cause a riotAnd have everyone screamingOut their eccentric meaning.

~ Initially No

I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.

~ Mark Nepo

the voice taunted, and threatened: you are afraid, unhappy, dissatisfied, what if….but I knew, this was not His language for motivating my heart,so I waited quietly to hear my Father's native tongue, I love, I am satisfied, I trust, this is the way... - and I moved.

~ Kate Mullane Robertson

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

~ Vernon Howard

Being a good communicator Patch, begins with listening, and listening to yourself first.

~ Michele Jennae

When you ask for assistance from your guides and the Masters of LightKnow that they already help you as much as they can.It is you who must come to meet them halfway. Do not ask them as if they had power to change your life.They only can guide you to be your own best guide.

~ Raphael Zernoff

You can't win an argument with an argument.

~ Sukant Ratnakar

...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.

~ Haruki Murakami