1102 – “When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.”

-anonymous

1045 – “Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that other love to speak to you.”

-anonymous

820 – “The Earth has its music for those who will listen”

–Reginald Vincent Holmes

Happy Earth Day! Go Do Something for the Planet!

669 – “I’m watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don’t deserve them. Her warm memories. I’d like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel.”

–R in Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies

651 -“Listen to the Mustn’ts” – a Poem

— Shel Silverstein —

Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child,
Listen to the DON’TS
Listen to the SHOULDN’TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WONT’S
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me-
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be

601 – “Never miss a good chance to shut up.”

–Will Rogers [Attributed]

407 – A Quote about Life

“I want to live simply. I want to sit by the window when it rains and read books I’ll never be tested on.
I want to paint because I want to, not because I’ve got something to prove. I want to listen to my body, fall asleep when the moon is high and wake up slowly, with no place to rush off to.
I want not to be governed by money or clocks or any artificial restraints that humanity imposes on itself. I just want to be, boundless and infinite.”

–anonymous

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269 – “Experiments are not about discovery but about listening and translating the knowledge of other beings.”

–Robin Wall Kimmerer

199 – “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, and honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

–Leo Buscaglia