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People Quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen
- When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.
- Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may…
- Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh as often as…
- Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom…
- In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless. Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can…
- One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that they once had…
- This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was very young. I…
- When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.
- For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From them I have…
- The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.
- We are all healers of each other. Look at David Spiegel's fascinating study of putting people together in a support group and seeking that some…
- We usually look outside ourselves for heroes and teachers. It has not occurred to most people that they may already be the role model they…
- Many people do not know that they can strengthen or diminish the life around them. The way we live day to day simply may not…
- Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal.…
- Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when nothing else can…
- I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we…
- Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds…
- Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore.…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle