Quote for Today: David Augsburger
Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable. ―David Augsburger, The Love Of Letting Be Image: “Who do we appreciate?” © woodleywonderworks with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Michael Finkel
Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the outer brain like wrapping paper. When one experiences …
Quote for Today: Elias Canetti
How unfair, he thought; I can close my mouth whenever I like, as tight as I like, and what has a mouth to say? It is there for taking …
Quote for Today: Javier Marías
Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close …
Quote for Today: Criss Jami
There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when …
Quote for Today: Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. …
Quote for Today: Jacqueline Carey
Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear. ―Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel’s Chosen
Quote for Today: Friedrich Nietzsche
A man has no ears for that which he cannot access through experience. To take an extreme case, suppose a book contains only incidents which lie outside the range of …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs …
Quote for Today: Aron Ralston
I limited myself to one shout a day. But I didn’t like the sound of my voice. It sounded panicked, it sounded scared. And I knew from experience you can’t …