"You confuse not speaking with not listening."

-- Gregory Maguire

#Listening Quotes

“It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.”
“Human progress is not an uninterrupted march forward. It is a slow and devious movement with haltings and twistings. The pathway of man ascends and descends, wanders off into mazes. At times the trail seems to lose itself in the wilderness of human passion and folly. But inch by inch it goes forward with halting steps.”
“In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action that it may be sooner over. On the contrary, you should accustom yourself to do whatever you have to do with tranquility, in order that you may retain the possession of yourself and of settled peace.”
“I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.”
“She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.”

Source : BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD (1988). “TO BE THE BEST”
“The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.”
“I don't believe in happy endings but I believe in happy journeys.”
“Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.”

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