"Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to people we think are our enemies - the ones we believe are making our situation worse. When you have shown your capacity for listening and understanding, the other person will begin to listen to you, and you have a change to tell him or her of your pain, and it's your turn to be healed. This is the practice of peace."

-- Nhat Hanh

#Pain Quotes #Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.”
“I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.”
“Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.”

Source : "Michael Morpurgo: We are failing too many boys in the enjoyment of reading" by Teacher's blog Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2012.
“What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a gene that makes organisms sacrifice themselves for other organisms under the influence of selfish genes.”
“Over ten thousand people have signed a petition to recall Governor Schwarzenegger. I'm sorry, that is next year's joke.”
“I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I said I wanted to write and direct. He said, No, you have to produce first, you have to crawl before you can walk. Which is as good a definition of producing as I ever heard.”

Source : "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies". Book by Leslie Halliwell, Harper Collins, p. 312, 2003.
“Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions.”

Source : Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.82, Penguin
“Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!”

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