Feeling Quotes
You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
"You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long."— Rabindranath Tagore
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Meaning of this quote
An apparently ordinary conversation can fulfill a long-unrecognized need for companionship.
Key takeaway:
Value quiet attention as well as impressive words.
Origin of the quote
Stray Birds (1916), poem 42.
Who actually said this?
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Source:
Stray Birds — poem 42
