"Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations."

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Source : Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.13, Harper Collins

Deborah Tannen

#Communication Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Conversation Quotes

“God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.”
“One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”
“He may be out of my life physically, but he'll always be a part of me. I can't let go even if I wanted to.”
“Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.”
“Love represents a lot of things. You can be in love with someone, you can be in love with something. You don't know why you love something so much, you just do. You gravitate towards it and then you figure it out later.”
“For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.”
“The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are no more limited than water and sky. At green corn dance time, water and sky come together, in Indian time, to make rain.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.124, Open Road Media

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