“When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.”

“Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. ”

“When you and the truth speak to me, I do not listen to the truth. I listen to you.”

“Take care never to speak what you have not weighed and pondered beforehand; nor interject your own words on the spur of the moment and in the midst of another’s; for you must listen and converse in turn, with set times for speech and for silence.”

“How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?”

“We teach them to speak and also to listen. Because when people only talk and don't listen, they end up thinking that what they say is the only thing that is worth anything. … Speaking and listening to words is how we know who we are, where we come from, and where our steps are going. Also it's how we know about others, their steps, and their world. Speaking and listening to words is like listening to life.”

“Listen, my body is attracted to your body but when you speak it makes my brain angry.”

“Even the silence
has a story to tell you.
Just listen. Listen.”

“People say I love you all the time - when they say, ‘take an umbrella, it’s raining,’ or ‘hurry back,’ or even ‘watch out, you’ll break your neck.’ There are hundreds of ways of wording it - you just have to listen for it, my dear.”

“Listen to what others have to say. When you speak, you're only repeating things you already know. When you listen you learn.”