“Communication is the solvent of all
problems and is the foundation for
personal 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
“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
“Balance Within Chaos” by Laurie Bain
“If we center ourselves within the heart
chakra and control our thoughts, we can
find the balance and harmony in every
situation.” —Laurie Bain
“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
“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.”
“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 pretence.
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.”