Being heard Quotes

“Sometimes we just need to be heard… There are times in life when being heard leads to being healed.”

“Sometimes we just need to be heard… There are times in life when being heard leads to being healed.”

“Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers. ”

“Sometimes when a person is not being heard, it is appropriate to blame him or her. Perhaps he or she is speaking obscurely; perhaps he is claiming too much; perhaps she is speaking rather too personally. And one can, perhaps, charge Spielrein on all three counts. But, on balance, her inability to win recognition for her insight into repression was not her fault; it was Freud’s and Jung’s. Preoccupied with their own theories, and with each other, the two men simply did not pause even to take in the ideas of this junior colleague let alone to lend a helping hand in finding a more felicitous expression for her thought. More ominously still, both men privately justified their disregard by implicitly casting her once more into the role of patient, as though that role somehow precluded a person from having a voice or a vision of his or her own. It was and remains a damning comment on how psychoanalysis was evolving that so unfair a rhetorical maneuver, one so at odds with the essential genius of the new therapeutic method, came so easily to hand. In the great race between Freud and Jung to systematize psychoanalytic theory, to codify it once and for all, a simpler truth was lost sight of: Sometimes a person is not heard because she is not listened to.”

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”

“The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.”

“Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.”

“Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.”

“Children must be taught that they are worth being heard, being saved and being loved.”

“It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.”

“The value is not in the noise one makes on socialmedia but the voice - the message being heard”