#ding

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bias #compassion #comprehension #discernment #fear

People don't tell others when they lose interest, just like they don't tell others when they love them. And then they wonder why they are so unhappy. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#relationships #love

My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#reading #treasures #love

I love when I finish reading a chapter that I wrote and my cheeks hurt from smiling and all I can utter is, 'Wow.' ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#author #books #reading #richelle #richelle-goodrich

One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that it spares us from the impotent pain of empathy, and the harder, messier work of understanding. ↗

— Tim Kreider

#judgment #understanding #love

It was like watching the sun set over an exausted horizen; seeing her fall softly asleep in my arms. I always felt this connection between her and the universe, like every time I experienced her, I was experiencing the universe. It was something I could never shake. Something I could never fathom into even the most delicate words. ↗

— Christopher Poindexter

#universe #wording #love

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#dictators #illiteracy #reading #censorship

That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays ↗

— Mitch Albom

#understanding #afterlife

They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another. ↗

— Pandora Poikilos

#chaos #gossip #misunderstanding #gossip

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#letters