#hear

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#does #heard #include #right #seriously

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#crafted #hear #i #immediacy #lot

When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#depends #going #hear #hendrix #i

That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling. ↗

— Janis Ian

#first #first time #hear #moment #radio

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#any #black #concealed #every #find

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. ↗

— Plato

#another #back #becomes #every #every heart

To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart," he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#heartbreak #love #beauty

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#wonder #young-at-heart #youth #youthfulness #beauty

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#compassion #heartwarming #love #pg- #beauty

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing... ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love #mourning #change