"An appreciative listener is always stimulating."

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Agatha Christie

#Appreciative Quotes

“If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.”
“The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.”
“Though the night seems long, you're tears won't fall forever.”

Source : Song: It Can't Rain All The Time
“Occasionally people will look at me and do a double take and theyll look at me like theyre trying to think where they know me from.”
“There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore followed the standards of political party. It is that of discarding every remnant of rancor against each other, of embracing as countrymen and friends, and of yielding to talents and virtue alone that confidence which in times of contention for principle was bestowed only upon those who bore the badge of party communion.”
“People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Sometimes you just need to give in to the yuckiness of the day, throw your psychic hands up in the air and trust that tomorrow will be an improvement.”
“She didn't know a lot about politics â€“ yet â€“ but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.”

Source : David Weber (2011). “A Beautiful Friendship”, p.172, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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