Compassionate Listening Quotes

#1. Being confronted with one's worst nightmares is both a way of testing your mental fortitude and seeing where your heart lies.

Rachel Hawkins

#2. Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#3. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#4. You can talk about right and wrong and good and bad all day long, but ultimately people need to see it. Seeing and studying the actual lives of people is simply the best way to communicate ideas about how to behave and how not to behave. We need heroes and role models.

Eric Metaxas

#5. Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Winston S. Churchill

#6. The odd thing about a banana," Oliver Swithin mused as he chased the naked policewoman across the moonlit field, "is not that it's an excellent source of potassium, but that everybody seems to know it is.

Alan Beechey

#7. You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening is described as compassionate listening. You listen only for the purpose of relieving suffering in the other person.

Nhat Hanh

#8. The time has come for women and men to band together to jointly create gender harmony. We must gather in mixed group to plumb new depths of relational awareness, courageous truth-telling, compassionate listening, empathic sensitivity, and mutual healing.

William Keepin

#9. Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.

Nhat Hanh

#10. If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself.

Dennis Kucinich

#11. One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.

Nhat Hanh

#12. To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.

Jerry Buss

#13. Maximizing time is making sure that every second is accounted for

Sunday Adelaja

#14. I don't do things that are illegal.

Patricia Cornwell

#15. What's really amazing about games is how they change our emotional response to challenges

Jane McGonigal

#16. A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

Walter Scott

#17. Brighton I-don't-know-your-middle-name Waterford, are you asking me to strip?

Tiffany Schmidt