Awake Quote by Donna Goddard

“At the time I vaguely knew that when anything stirs us that deeply, moves us to the point of distraction, and urgently invites us…

— Karol Jackowski

“Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much…

— Jane Austen

“Of course people need not be always talking well. Only one tells the quality of their minds when they try to talk well.”

— George Eliot

“When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict.”

— Kirsten Siggins

“The conversation advanced with remarkable ease. Talk is cheerful, the way talk is among people who rarely see one another and are surprised they…

— Richard Rodriguez

“Words are like the wind. They will blow away your own footsteps but they also will blow away the footsteps and thoughts of others.…

— Jones Brent M

“...I think that we succumb to attitudes that do not permit us to dialogue: domination, not knowing how to listen, annoyance in our speech,…

— Jorge Mario Bergoglio

“Conversations with people we don’t usually talk to lead to ideas we wouldn’t think of on our own.”

— David Sturt

“We have the best chance of communicating our thoughts if we are sincere and speak from the heart, without hidden intent.”

— Wu Wei

“We just tiptoe around things, afraid we’ll offend or look ignorant, be misunderstood. Honesty is a risk few are willing to take.”

— Kennedy Ryan

“In fact, in order that we may never know ourselves, we hate silence and solitariness. Lest our conscience should carry on with us an…

— Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

“I never much like thus being told without possibility of reply what I am to think about people whom I know.”

— Marcel Proust