"I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life."

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Brenda Ueland

#Powerful Quotes #Children Quotes #Writing Quotes

“What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?”
“All religions are precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.”
“It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.”
“I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.”

Source : "The Man with No Bones" by Amanda Dobbins, www.gq.com. October 24, 2011.
“If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.”
“Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.”
“John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.”
“But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?”

Source : Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.193, Applewood Books

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