Paul Tillich Quotes

The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.

Unless you listen, people are weazened in your presence; they become about a third of themselves. Unless you listen, you can't know anybody. Oh, you will know facts and what is in the newspapers and all of history, perhaps, but you will not know one single person. You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

Listening is love in action.

The portal into people's hearts is being interested in them.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

I love my ability to generate empathy and compassion within myself and others.

My mother taught me to ask people about the things they love.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs.

I think listening to people is helpful.

Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a prerequisite of love. One of the most essential ways of saying 'I love you' is being a receptive listener.

I have trouble listening to people tell me about their dreams.

Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.

Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.

There's a power in empathy.

I am thankful to all the people who have loved and listened to me.

I think the ability to empathize with another person's experience and go into the trajectory of their journey is challenging.

Before I judge someone, I need to talk to them and learn what their journey's are.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.