Sacred/listening

Famous quotes containing the words sacred and/or listening:

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.”
—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)