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Love is not just a feeling, it's an action. It's about connecting with others in a way that makes them feel seen, heard, and valued.
Brené Brown
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
Albert Schweitzer
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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 a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
E.E. Cummings
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath Tagore
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
Love is not a weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Boris Pasternak
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 a feeling, Mr. Burns. It's an ability.
The Simpsons
Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.
Ken Keyes Jr.
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
Empathy is the antidote to shame. The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.
Brené Brown
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.
Empathy is the key to great stories.
Austin Kleon
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
Gloria Steinem
Empathy is the starting point for love.
Unknown
Empathy is the glue that holds relationships together.
Unknown
The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen Covey
Love cannot live where there is no trust.
Edith Hamilton
Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people.
Stephen R. Covey
Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection.
Vanessa Lachey
Trust is the foundation of love, and love is the glue that holds relationships together.
Unknown
Trust is the key to a happy and fulfilling relationship. Without trust, love is unstable and can easily crumble.
Unknown
Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
William P. Young
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
Alain de Botton
Intimacy is not purely physical. It's the act of connecting with someone so deeply, you feel like you can see into their soul.
Unknown
Intimacy is the art of gathering the soul, not just for the purpose of flattery, but for the sake of appreciating one another as complete beings.
John O'Donohue
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Amy Bloom
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.
Henri Nouwen
Intimacy is the willingness to be vulnerable.
Unknown
Intimacy is the capacity to be alone, while connected.
Unknown
Intimacy is not just about sex. It's about being able to share your entire life with someone.
Unknown
Intimacy is the antidote to loneliness.
Unknown
Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Unknown
Love is not about changing someone. It's about accepting them as they are.
Unknown
Love is not about possession, it's all about appreciation.
Unknown
Love is not about what we have, but about what we give.
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 finding someone who completes you, but about finding someone who accepts you completely.
Unknown
Love is not about being perfect, it's about accepting each other's imperfections.
Unknown
Love is not about changing yourself for someone else, it's about finding someone who accepts you for who you are.
Unknown
Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.
David G. Allen
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
Joyce Meyer
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5
Patience is the key to paradise.
Turkish Proverb
The greatest gift you can give someone is your understanding. It's the best relationship builder.
Unknown
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Eden Ahbez
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Rumi
Love is the only force capable of making an enemy into a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
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 a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love is not something you go out and look for. Love finds you, and when it does, ready or not, it'll be the best thing to ever happen to you.
Anonymous
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell
Forgiveness is the only way to heal.
Caroline Myss
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible—it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara De Angelis
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and compassion.
Unknown
Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self.
Russell Simmons
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
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema Chödrön
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Thomas Merton
Love and compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.
Dalai Lama
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer
The only way to change the world is through acts of compassion.
Dalai Lama
The greatest sacrifice is when you sacrifice your own happiness for the sake of someone else.
Unknown
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
Love is not just a feeling of passion and romance. It is also sacrifice, compromise, and selflessness.
Unknown
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson
Love is not a trade, I love you because you love me; I love you because I love you.
Liv Ullmann
Love is not just a feeling, it's an action. It's about what you do for someone else.
Unknown
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
Communication is the solvent of all problems and is the foundation for personal development.
Peter Shepherd
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
James Humes
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.
Brian Tracy
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Tom Peters
Communication is not just words. It's how those words are said, the facial expressions and body language that go along with them.
Unknown
Communication is the key to success in any relationship. Communicate openly, honestly, and often.
Unknown
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.
Stephen R. Covey
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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 fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
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 inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Jacques Maritain
Gratitude is the best attitude. There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.
Joseph Addison
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