Parler est un besoin, écouter est un art.

Recently I went to Belgium to visit some family and I found this postcard, first of all I picked out the card due to the fact that it was pink and I understood some of the words in French.

“Parler est un besoin, écouter est un art.” – Goethe

Which translates to “talking is a need, but listening is an art.” 

And truthfully I never thought of it that way. We always have the need to talk, talk to people about how we’re doing, what we did that day, ask people questions and just talk a lot in general, where as listening, listening is one of the greatest things, we listen to music, we listen to other people talk about things. Whenever we talk about qualities we always mention how it’s a great quality, to be a good listener. I just thought it was a beautiful quote.