
“I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.”
Source: True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
On Israel, America and AIPAC (2007)
“I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.”
Source: True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
Speech in the House of Commons (28 January 1840), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume I. 1804–1859 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 485
1840s
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”
Variant: I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 20
1930s, My Credo (1932)
Context: Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often worried at the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them.
In a letter to Amir Ohan about the Clause 7B of the Basic Law proposal: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, as quoted in Sharansky: Jewish state bill will ‘drive a wedge’ between Israel and Diaspora https://www.timesofisrael.com/sharansky-jewish-state-bill-will-drive-a-wedge-between-israel-and-diaspora/ (11 July 2018) by Raoul Wootliff, The Times of Israel.
Babak Khorramdin's letter to his son, rejecting the caliph’s amnesty message, quoted by Al-Tabari, cited in "BĀBAK ḴORRAMI" at Encyclopaedia Iranica http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/babak-korrami
“I am not concerned that you fall; I am concerned that you arise.”
Attributed in Deborah Gillan Straub (1996), Native North American Voices
Misattributed
Quoted by Garson Kanin in Atlantic (March 1964).
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