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Attentiveness is the heart of prayer. -- Simone Weil
Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul, -- Nicolas Malebranche
Victory brings obliviousness; defeat, attentiveness. -- Mason Cooley
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness. -- Novalis
Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value. -- Peter Bart
We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness. -- Francis Chan
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood. -- Tom Chatfield
When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement. -- Bryant H. McGill
People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself. -- Marilynne Robinson
The most striking features of the correctly bred German Shepherds are firmness of nerves, attentiveness, unshockability, tractability, watchfulness, reliability and incorruptibility together with courage, fighting tenacity and hardness. -- Max von Stephanitz
If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life. -- Eugene H. Peterson
Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness - the feeling that someone is trying to think about us - something we want more than praise? -- Stephen Grosz
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. -- Alice Miller
I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen. -- Diane Lane
Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we have a valid demonstration that he does not love us or that he does not love us anymore. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world. -- Adam Zagajewski
So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what he is noticing, continuous alertness to catch himself thinking or seeing, devotional attentiveness to the world he's moving through. -- Allen Ginsberg
Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness. -- Mary Oliver
Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right now. Importantly, this is in the service of being able to choose wisely so that I avoid complicating my own life and the lives of others. -- Sylvia Boorstein
At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children. -- John W. Gardner
That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and precedes the final banns and the rite; but which, like the bouquet of the costliest German wines, too often evaporates upon pouring love out to drink, in the disenchanting glasses of the matrimonial days and nights. -- Herman Melville
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook. -- Stephen Dobyns

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