Listen Quotes

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I’d have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.

Even the silence has music if you care to listen to.