Michael Ende Quotes

When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

She was a genius at listening.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything - to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

There is room for growth in all of us and across all of these platforms, to be able to make sure that we are hearing each other, that we are understanding exactly what's going on across the country.

The greatest skill that I have is what the viewer has: I listen. I try to listen silently.

Engagement is always better then disengagement. If we don't talk, somebody else will.

I think, in a world of mouths, I want to be an ear.

Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.

The heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

When we shout at the oak tree, the oak tree is not offended. When we praise the oak tree, it doesn't raise its nose. We can learn the Dharma from the oak tree; therefore, the oak tree is part of our Dharmakaya. We can learn from everything that is around, that is in us.

You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.