"The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence."

-- Gao Xingjian

#Listening Quotes #Needs Quotes #Language Quotes

“Celebrations infuse life with passion and purpose. They summon the human spirit.”

Source : Terrence E. Deal, M. K. Key (1998). “Corporate Celebration: Play, Purpose, and Profit at Work”, p.5, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in the end they were making as much noise as if they had been two ordinary healthy natural ten-year-old creaturesâ€”instead of a hard, little, unloving girl and a sickly boy who believed that he was going to die.”
“And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens ...”
“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”

Source : Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton
“Following Christ is not a casual or occasional practice but a continuous commitment and way of life that applies at all times and in all places.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dallin H Oaks from Jun 24, 2014
“I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young.”
“If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.”
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.”

Source : "Churchill 'in the year of Trump': Darkest Hour feeds America's love for Winston" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2017.

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