"To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear."

--

Mark Nepo

#Changed Quotes #Willingness Quotes

“Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.”
“Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.”

Source : N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.5, UNM Press
“It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.”
“She loved attention. It was like a glass of the best champagneâ€”bubbly and intoxicatingâ€”and as with champagne, she always wanted more of it. Still, she didnâ€™t want to seem like an easy mark. â€œIf you must know, Iâ€™ve come to join a convent,â€ Evie said, testing him.”
“Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.”

Source : " Zen and the Art of Systems Analysis : Meditations on Computer Systems Development" by Patrick McDermott, (p. xix), 2002.
“If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.”
“Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.”
“We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now...when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing.”

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