Brenda Ueland Quotes

Listening is love in action.

Listening is one of the forms of love.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

The first duty of love is to listen.

She was a genius at listening.

As in all areas, we can improve how good we are at loving another person.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

A little love and attention can go a long way...too bad more people don't realize that.

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

By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.

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.

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

My mum told me that the best thing you could give a woman was attention.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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

When a man leaves you notes saying he loves you, or asks how your day was - and then listens - you feel special.

Love without conversation is impossible.

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

I don't know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that.

I had to learn what made Kim happy. I learned you have to take care of the spark in your eyes.