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The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
The greatest gift you can give someone is your undivided attention.
Unknown
The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.
Ralph Nichols
Communication is the fuel that keeps the fire of your relationship burning, without it, your relationship goes cold.
William Paisley
The most important thing in a relationship is not what you get but what you give. In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The most important thing in communication is to feel what is being said and hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.
Unknown
The art of conversation lies in listening.
Malcolm Forbes
Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.
Nicholas Sparks
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson
The human touch is that little snippet of physical affection that brings a bit of comfort, support, and kindness. It doesn't take much from the one who gives it, but can make a huge difference in the one who receives it.
Mya Robarts
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch
The warmth of your embrace carries me through the coldest of nights.
Unknown
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Bil Keane
The human body is the best work of art.
Jess C. Scott
The human touch is the fundamental element of human communication.
Stephen Covey
The power of touch is so great that even the smallest gesture can change a life.
Unknown
The most important things in life are the connections you make with others.
Tom Ford
Love is not a feeling of instant excitement. It is a journey of slowly building up trust, faith, and commitment.
Unknown
Love is not just about physical attraction, it's about emotional connection and spiritual growth.
Unknown
Love is not just about finding the right person, but creating a right relationship. It's not about how much love you have in the beginning but how much love you build till the end.
Jumar Lumacad
Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
Barbara De Angelis
Love is not a matter of counting the years... But making the years count.
Michelle St. Amand
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.
Pema Chödrön
Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create more smiles in our world today. Smiles, after all, pave the way to a happy world.
Steve Maraboli
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.
Compassion is not just feeling with someone, but seeking to change the situation. Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action!
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Love and compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.
Dalai Lama
Empathy is the antidote to shame. If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in a Petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
Brené Brown
Transparency is not about being exposed. It's about being willing to be seen.
Brene Brown
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
Mother Teresa
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love, and loyalty.
Zig Ziglar
Transparency is key to good communication.
Unknown
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Transparency is the key to building trust. Trust is the key to building relationships.
Unknown
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
William Shakespeare
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.
Brian Sutton-Smith
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.
Carl Jung
Play is the exultation of the possible.
Martin Buber
The true object of all human life is play.
G.K. Chesterton
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E.E. Cummings
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
We don't laugh because we're happy, we're happy because we laugh.
William James
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Jacques Maritain
Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.
Rumi
Love is not a feeling, Mr. Burns. It's an ability.
The Simpsons
Love is not a feeling, Mr. Allnut. It's an act of your will.
Rose Sayer, The African Queen
Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.
Brené Brown
The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers
The greatest thing in life is to be loved, and to love in return.
Unknown
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
Paulo Coelho
Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
Love is not about finding the right person, but about creating a right relationship. It's not about how much love you have in the beginning but how much love you build till the end.
Unknown
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever.
Nicholas Sparks
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn
Love is a partnership of two unique people who bring out the very best in each other, and who know that even though they are wonderful as individuals, they are even better together.
Barbara Cage
Love is not about how many days, weeks or months you've been together, it's all about how much you love each other every day.
Unknown
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
Marianne Williamson
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. To love somebody isn't just a strong feeling. It is a decision, a judgment, and a promise.
Unknown
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Love is not just a feeling of attraction, it's a choice to commit to someone even when they don't deserve it.
Unknown
Love is not what you say. Love is what you do.
Unknown
Love is not about finding someone to live with. It's about finding someone you can't live without.
Unknown
Love is not about how much you say 'I love you', but how much you prove that it's true.
Unknown
Love is not about who you can see spending your future with, it's about who you can't see spending your life without.
Unknown
Passion is momentary; love is enduring.
John Wooden
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Elinor Glyn
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.
Nicholas Sparks
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
Alain de Botton
Romance is the icing, but love is the cake.
Anonymous
Intimacy is not purely physical. It's the act of connecting with someone so deeply, you feel like you can see into their soul.
Anonymous
Passion is universal humanity. Without it, religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honoré de Balzac
Intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me' - that's intimacy.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The greatest gift you can give someone is your loyalty.
Unknown
Love is not just a feeling, it's a commitment and above all, a sacrifice.
Unknown
Commitment is the foundation of great accomplishments.
Heidi Reeder
True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.
Ellen G. White
Loyalty is what makes us trust. Trust is what makes us stay. Staying is what makes us love, and love is what gives us hope.
Glennon Doyle Melton
Love is not just a feeling of attraction, it's a commitment to care, cherish, and protect.
Unknown
Loyalty is the key to a healthy relationship. Don't let insecurity and jealousy destroy it.
Unknown
Commitment is the glue that bonds you together through the ups and downs of life.
Unknown
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