Being Attentive Quotes

#1. Perhaps love and attention are really the same thing. One can't exist without the other. The British scholar Avner Offer calls attention "the universal currency of well-being." Attentive people, in other words, are happy people.

Eric Weiner

#2. Wellness within is mindfulness and acceptance of what you are, what you feel inside and how it's always changing. That process is helped by being attentive to the breath as it moves through the body.

Rodney Yee

#3. The British scholar Avner Offer calls attention "the universal currency of well-being." Attentive people, in other words, are happy people. Tashi

Eric Weiner

#4. What you find I think in the mystical strain of Catholicism is that you're put in relationship with God, and you have many opportunities not only of talking with God in petitionary prayer, but also of listening to God, being attentive to God, as happens in contemplation.

Kevin Hart

#5. Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Thomas Merton

#6. If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. Similarly, if you're trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you're not going to grow and develop so fast.

Aimee Mullins

#7. What's important is being attentive. Staying calm, being alert to things around you.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention!

Matt Redman

#9. People may say 'What can I do? I'm only one person.' But we've proven that when we come together demonstrate, and speak our piece, there is no way the power structure can avoid being attentive.

Peter Yarrow

#10. I would definitely say I'm a feminist. To me, it just means being attentive and mindful. It's about equality and equal treatment. It feels like a gut instinct.

Hattie Morahan

#11. The simple act of being completely attentive and present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being. It is happiness that isn't bound to a particular situation, happiness that can withstand change.

Sharon Salzberg

#12. He looked all Negro to me: he was rich chocolate with flaring nostrils and beautiful teeth. Sometimes he would skip happily , and the Negro woman tugged his hand to make him stop.

Harper Lee

#13. Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.

Christina Ricci

#14. You take yourself to be limited, but you are not. Discover this. Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it. Just be aware of your being here and now. Reality will find you.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#15. Torture is being married to a proud, insensitive man, while an attentive, supportive man lives under the same roof.

Heather Day Gilbert

#16. I do not know the art of being clear to those who do not want to be attentive.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#17. Just like your father, Ryan - blunt, abrasive and cursing like a sailor." He moved closer until he was just inches from him and added with a wink, "Everything I liked about him.

Franca Storm

#18. The two-inch blade can penetrate four inches into such parts of the body, the four-inch blade eight inches, etc. Having

Massad Ayoob

#19. I don't think about it in terms of being a woman. Being gracious, attentive, curious, interested are requirements for everyone.

Jenna Lyons

#20. While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.

Nachman Of Breslov

#21. I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains you to be attentive to words in a very specific, very concrete, very literal way.

Ann Goldstein

#22. As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent ... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard.

Soren Kierkegaard

#23. I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. - John 15:5 (NIV)

Shelley Hitz

#24. One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.

John Lescroart

#25. A novelist can't be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

Natsuki Takaya

#26. I'm a water person; water heals.

Mariska Hargitay

#27. The fact that people were attentive to his body does not compensate for their ignoring his being.

Abraham Verghese

#28. I trust a few people in my life but there is one who gets my full trust. and that is my book.

Mino