Lao-tzu

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

Topic: Listening, Self
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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Be the chief but never the lord. — Lao-tzu

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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

› Cicero

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It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one. — Heraclitus

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If you want to be heard, learn how to listen. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

› Walter Bagehot

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Youths talk first and then listen, the elderly listen and then talk. — African Proverb

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Observe with the eyes; listen with the ears; shut the mouth. — Hawaiin Proverb

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A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.

› Kenyan Proverb

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These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. — Rumi

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Born, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

› Abrose Bierce

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Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James Baldwin

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Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. — Publilius Syrus

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Listening is the best way to learn. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside. — Rumi

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Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. — Emily Dickinson

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The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Appreciation Listening

Listening is a magnetic and strong thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

› Karl Menninger

Listening

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Communication Listening

Men trust their ears less than their eyes. — Herodotus

Communication Listening Trust

In silence man can most readily preserve integrity. — Meister Eckhart

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Listening taught you how to speak. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Example Listening Speech

I’ll speak in a monstrous little voice. — William Shakespeare

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We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

› Martin Luther King Jr.

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False leaders proclaim to have all the answers. True leaders listen. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. — Winston Churchill

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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. — Maya Angelou

Gratitude Kindness Self

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. — Michel de Montaigne

Self Self-esteem

He who knows others is wise; He that knows himself is enlightened. — Lao-tzu

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Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. — Abraham Lincoln

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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

› Jonathan Swift

Discovery Self

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

› Buddha

Peace Self

Nothing is terrible except fear itself. — Francis Bacon

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It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

› Thomas Sowell

Intelligence Self Thinking

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

› John Muir

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Rule your mind or it will rule you. — Horace

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Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. — Oscar Wilde

Experience Learning Self

A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself. — Michel de Montaigne

Self Self-esteem

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. — Benjamin Franklin

Action Happiness Self

The nearest way to come at glory, is to do that for conscience which we do for glory. — Benjamin Franklin

Self Solitude

Every man for himself and God for us all. — John Heywood

Self Society

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

› Martha Graham

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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value. — John Adams

Confidence Self Self-esteem

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. — Benjamin Disraeli

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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

› Washington Allston

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Without self awareness we are babies in the cradles. — Virginia Woolf

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Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. — Martha Graham

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