#ten

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

#talking #love

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking. ↗

— Robert Stack

#first #france #french #gravitate #grew

I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food. ↗

— Nicholas Stern

#am #ask #attitudes #carbon #change

Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen #love #marianne-dashwood #sense-and-sensibility #world

Continued pain is a signal to the body that there's something wrong, not right. Lucy Scarborough Nancy Werlin ↗

— Nancy Werlin (Author)

#love #pain #love

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#becomes #insupportable #love #love is #most

The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#commissioners #competence #countries #credibility #each

Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me. ↗

— Marc Bekoff

#consistency #ethics #love

Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#enlightened #enlightening #enlightenment #love #transcendence

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion! ↗

— Susan Sontag

#pretense #self-love #selflessness #love