Quotes by West, Jessamyn

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the >>

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of h >>

It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and >>

Quotations about Listening

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my >>

A person hears only what they understand. >>

Listen. Don't explain or justify. >>

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

West, Jessamyn