Kitchen Table Quotes - Page 4

• A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Silence, Listening, Heal

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Bird, Buddy

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, Anchor

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

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Powerful, Listening To Others, Silence

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Listening To Others, Giving, Silence

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• America’s drug problem is not going to be solved in courtrooms or legislative hearing rooms by judges and politicians. It will be solved in living rooms and dining rooms and across kitchen tables – by parents and families.

  Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

  America, Judging, Parent

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• Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

  Anne Lamott

  Brother, Father, Book

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, Anchor

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