COMMUNICATION & RELATIONSHIPS
development." —Peter Shepherd
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows
something." —Wilson Mizner
"Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice." —Stanley
Horowitz
"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to
strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories."
—George Eliot
"Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, and sometimes it hurts." —Victor M.
Garcia Jr.
"To love leaves us open to loss. But we do it to ourselves because it is worth it." —
from Lark Rise to Candleford (BBC drama)
"An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart." —David Augsburger
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." —Plato
"People who do not understand you will never settle for any proof, and people who
appreciate you do not need any proof. " —Seth (Jane Roberts)
"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct." —Benjamin Disraeli
"Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime." —Andrew Lloyd Webber
35"Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." —Les Brown
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of
ourselves." —Carl Jung
"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in
feminine women is something masculine." —Susan Sontag
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." —Eleanor Roosevelt
"Have the courage to be sincere, clear and honest. This opens the door to deeper
communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections
with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that
burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you
get clarity on your real heart directives." —Sara Paddison
"Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement." —Donald A. Laird
"Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having
neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as
they are - chaff and grain together - certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away." —
Dinah Craik
"When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love
someone, you love them with their faults." —Elizabeth Cameron
"People change and forget to tell each other." —Lillian Hellman
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if
they don't, they never were" —Kahlil Gibran
"Friendship with one's self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends
with anyone else in the world." —Eleanor Roosevelt
"Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." —Mahatma Gandhi
"Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not.
Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our
minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false
concepts of separation." —Sharon Salzbert
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say
something." —Plato
"Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and
precious thing." —Randolph S. Bourne
"The result of our people-judgments is that we often throw away someone's ideas
because they are voiced by the wrong person or because we don't agree with all of
their ideas." —Thayer White
"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails." —
Unknown
"The people who matter will recognize who you are." —Alan Cohen
"If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." —African
proverb
"With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing." —Catherine de Hueck
36"Love is touching souls." —Joni Mitchell
"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been,
accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow." —William
Shakespeare
"Criticism is something we can avoid easily —by saying nothing, doing nothing, and
being nothing." —Aristotle
"Real love takes work. You have to be willing to make the effort." —Rabbi Weinberg
"There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre." —
Heraclitus
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking
outward together in the same direction." —Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a
heartfelt compliment." —Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of
using people and loving things."
"The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life
that nothing else can bring." —Oscar Wilde
"The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine
because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't
look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions.
They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them." —Lao Tzu
"The judgement of others does not change who I am. Quite the opposite is true. It
reveals who they are." —Terry McPhearson
"Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates
profoundness, giving with kindness creates love." —Lao Tseu
"A friend is a person with whom I may be honest. Before him, I may think aloud." —
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish." —Euripedes
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." —Mark Twain
"A friend is someone who knows the song of your soul and sings it back to you when
you've forgotten the words."
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also
to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
"We would not have to forgive people if we didn't judge them in the first place." —Barry
Neil Kaufman
"Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, the other gold."
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." —Elbert Hubbard
"When someone's character seems impossible to fathom, observe his friends." —
Japanese proverb
"A true friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and
accepts you today, just the way you are."
37"The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life
that nothing else can bring." —Oscar Wilde
"If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody
needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others." —Dalai Lama
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in
it at all." —Noam Chomsky
"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." —Aesop
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but
people will never forget how you made them feel." —Maya Angelou
"The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves
nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their
love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate
truth at the heart of the universe." —Deepak Chopra
"Don't rob a friend, a partner, family member or the world of someone that could have
been a real companion, and someone that could make a difference. Don't ever give up
being special!" —Willy Conradie
"That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people
love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending -
performing. You get to love your pretense. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act -
and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their
masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try
to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most
precious possession." —Jim Morrison
"In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger,
do not answer anyone's letter." —Chinese proverb
"Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own." —Chinese proverb
"We would not have to forgive people if we didn't judge them in the first place." —Barry
Neil Kaufman
"Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share." —Graham Green
"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite
distance continues to exist, a wonderful living side-by-side can grow up, if they
succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see
the other whole and against a wide sky." —Rainer Maria Rilke
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss
people.
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