"It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening."

-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#Listening Quotes #Hearing Quotes

“Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.”
“To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.”
“You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump?”
“I look after myself. I train and go to the gym.”
“As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.”
“The artistâ€™s memory is a dangerous, necessary thing. Never disavow what you see and remember-itâ€™s your brilliant stock-in-trade: remembering, and making something out of it. Artists remember the world as it is, first, because you have to know what it is youâ€™re reinventing; thatâ€™s a rule, perhaps the only one: being cognizant of your source material.”
“It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didnâ€™t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.”
“Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.”

Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.300, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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