#listen

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country. ↗

— Gretchen Wilson

#country music #country radio #fiddle #got #hear

Dear cat, your ears are flipped inside out, so I know you’re not listening to a word I’m not saying.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cats #communication #ears #listen #listening

The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it. ↗

— Thomas Dubay

#listening #humility

I have no auditory depth perception. She said, “I love you,” and I couldn’t even tell if she was 300 miles away, or 6 feet below my feet and 300 years away.
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— Jarod Kintz

#auditory #cemetery #death #depth-perception #grave

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people. ↗

— Bryce Courtenay

#listening #storytelling #design

You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#full #humble #humility #learn #listen

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well. ↗

— Kate Seredy

#books #brains #heart #i #listening

If you want to become something, achieve something in life, then always listen to your heart. ↗

— Shahrukh Rafi Khan

#listen-to-your-heart #inspirational

Let your wisdom guide you On your own personal journey By listening to your heart Your soul will be alight And let you be All that you are intended to be ↗

— Karen Hackel

#listen #soul #wisdom #wisdom-inspirational #inspirational

What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#life #listening #nature #life