Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

Listening with undivided attention and unconditional love Is perhaps the greatest gift we can extend to others.

To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.

In my Lifetime, I hope to develop, Arms that are strong, Hands that are gentle, Ears that will listen, Eyes that are kind, A tongue that will speak softly, A mind full of wisdom, A heart that understands.

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

I answer a fan with a hearing heart first.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

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.

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

I've been saying it at all our Senate Democratic retreats we need to speak to the heart, not in a manipulative way, not in a way that brings forth everybody's fears and resentments, but truly to speak to the heart so that people know that we're actually on their side.

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.

The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world

Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.

I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.

All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.

Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. (page 103)

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

Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart.

What I learned is, we have to listen to each other, even when we don't agree, even when we think we hate each other. We have to listen to each others narratives. Not interrupt defensively, or with hostility, but really try to open our hearts and listen with empathy. I learned so much from that meeting. It was a very difficult thing to do and it was one of the best things that I ever did in my life. Look what scares you in the face, and try to understand it. Empathy, I have learned, is revolutionary.

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

I bless the wisdom of my loving heart. Love is a form of listening. I listen with a loving heart. I listen to the love within my heart and I hear the love in the hearts of others.

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