The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen.

Found on Tumblr in March

Ten tumblr quotes about life that caught attention in March

1. Look around you. The earth wouldn’t exist without the sun. Plants would die without rain. We’re all meant to lean on something. Or someone. Katie Kacvinsky, First Comes Love
2. Our lives are not fully lived if we’re not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe. Selma
3. The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention… A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. Rachel Naomi Remen 
   
4. Working on myself, by myself, for myself. Anonymous
5. It’s alright if you finally stop caring, just don’t go and tell someone that does.The Avett Brothers
6.  Letting go of toxic people is a major step towards being happier. Unknown Author
7. My gentle fingers tracing the lines on your face to lift you from sleep. Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson
8. She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
9. The bad news — nothing lasts forever. The good news — nothing lasts forever. Unknown Author
10. There is no rain you need to wash your soul clean. Stop chasing the storms. Stop looking for the floods. What all you need lives so near, it’s inside you. Close your eyes. Breathe. And feel this. Today, everything changes, even when everything remains exactly the same. Akif Kichloo

Found on Pinterest in March

Ten quotes from Pinterest that caught attention

1. You can't go back to how things were, or how you thought they were supposed to be. All you really have is now. The smartest thing you can control in life is your reaction to what’s beyond your control. Dwelling on negativity from the past simply contributes to its power. So stop focusing on what happened and start focusing on what’s going to move you forward.  Melchor Lim
2. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Unknown (Found on Pinterest)
3. Do you want to be happy? Let go of what's gone, be grateful for what remains and look forward to what is coming.Unknown (This Quote Found on Pinterest)
4. Do one thing every day that scares you. – Eleanor Roosevelt
5. It’s better to be at the bottom of the ladder you want to climb than to be on the top of one you don’t.” Chris Guillebeau
6. "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."  Wayne Dyer
7. “A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.” Miranda Kerr
8. Strong women wear their pain like they do stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it. Unknown (This Quote Found on Pinterest)
9. Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. Unknown (This Quote Found on Pinterest)
10. She believed she could, so she did. Unknown (This Quote Found on Pinterest)

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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day. —G. Herbert


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Weak, timid landsmen on life's stormy main. —R. Burns



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