Top 21 Friendship Listening Quotes
#1. The common thread from all those stories was that talking helped, and listening, and time. One day I would find my own place. I couldn't run there, though, because it didn't exist yet; I had to build it myself, out of forgiveness, truth, and terrifying gestures of friendship.
I. W. Gregorio
#2. For so long, I hadn't really heard Margo - I'd seen her screaming and thought her laughing - that now I figured it was my job. To try, even at this great remove, to hear the opera of her.
John Green
#3. Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#4. Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.
Ed Cunningham
#5. I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.
Virginia Woolf
#6. A true friend knows when to give advice and when to just listen.
"stuff I think about" book by Sondra Faye
Sondra Faye
#7. One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
#8. I guess he had listened to more beefs and more problems from more people than any of us. A guy that'll really listen to you, listen and care about what you're saying, is something rare.
S.E. Hinton
#9. Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.
Harold Holzer
#10. Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.
Ruth Rendell
#11. By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.
Gail Sheehy
#13. The corner doesn't mind listening to the stupid things I say;
Sometimes it's the only one keeping me from running away.
And the corner never tells me things I'd rather never know;
We became the best of friends long, long, long ago.
Margo T. Rose
#14. Sometimes you can look back on times in your life and know that God was guiding you even when you didn't know you were supposed to be listening.
Melanie Shankle
#15. Anyone can talk,
but to listen is a gift,
we should all exchange
J. Benson
#16. In the name of friendship you should make sure your door is always open to listen. Don't feel you need to provide unsolicited possible solutions, answers or even ideas. Listening without judgment and offering assistance when asked should be enough. That's friendship's high calling.
Amy Dickinson
#17. A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
Richard Rohr
#18. In order to understand the impact you can have on another's life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard.
Madelaine Standing
#19. George Butterick said, "Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking. . . . And in the deepest mood is friendship held in reverence.
Marilyn Wilson
#20. Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
Richard Paul Evans
#21. Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.
George Arthur Buttrick
