Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
“Isn't that a kind of prayer? The care and maintenance of the web of our noticing, the paying heed?” — Kathleen Jamie Copy Share Image
“Preserve a loving attentiveness to God with no desire to feel or understand any particular thing concerning God.” — St. John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention! — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
“The only way to eradicate disquieted state of mind in this world is to give serious and heedful attentiveness to those in… — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood. — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Each soul must awaken from the aloneness of a private dream world to greet the morning sun, view the sweet earth, apprehend… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
“Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how & what you think. It means being conscious… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness - the feeling that… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
“Poet Mary Oliver wrote, “This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know: that the soul exists, and that it is… — Wendy Strgar Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“When the shimmer of the past is melting into the presence, spreading a scent of attentiveness and inquiringness, our mind may ask… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Being in the present moment is no easy task, especially when we are interrupted by someone who needs our attention at a… — Elizabeth Canham Copy Share Image
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound.… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“[P]eople think of compassion as, like, kindness. The image comes to mind of some nice New Age guy bending to something with… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The fruit of solitude is increased sensitivity and compassion for others. There comes a new freedom to be with people. There is… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Giving material goods is one form of generosity, but one can extend an attitude of generosity into all one's behavior. Being kind,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“It is seductive to be a good listener no less than a questioner, and once again we suspect this is because listening… — David P. Barash Copy Share Image
“Infrared satellite imagery, optical telescopes, and the Hubbell space telescope bring vastness within our visual sphere. Electron microscopes let us wander the… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value. — Peter Bart Copy Share Image
When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement. — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“It is extremely difficult to stay alert & attentive instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monolog inside your head.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
“The girl was kind in a special way; when you spoke to her, she seemed to stop thinking of whatever she been… — Ellery Queen Copy Share Image
The most striking features of the correctly bred German Shepherds are firmness of nerves, attentiveness, unshockability, tractability, watchfulness, reliability and incorruptibility together… — Max von Stephanitz Copy Share Image
Still, there's that faint glimmer of hope we feel when we sense, in other people, the same kind of attentiveness to life… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You’re better off not giving… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I may be a sleeping politician. But one should know that a sleeping politician is always awake about national politics. I am… — H. D. Deve Gowda Copy Share Image
![“[P]eople think of compassion as, like, kindness. The image comes to mind of some nice New Age guy bending to something with a look on his face like he’s about to cry. And I don’t think that’s it. I think of it more as a quality of openness that comes with being in a state of unusual attentiveness.” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/513/george-saunders-317_attentiveness_p-eople-think-of-compassion-as-like-kind_1295518.jpg)
