Quotes About Communication

You don't have to share everything with everybody. Not everyone must know about all parts of you—just the parts they need to know.

Our parents are mysterious to us in ways that we can never quite be mysterious to them.

can't imagine when she wanted to evoke some positive, pleasant memory of her past, as if there were no point in trying to use more concrete, more descriptive adjectives

emergent relatedness assumes that the infant from the moment of birth is deeply social in the sense of being designed to engage in and find uniquely salient interactions with other humans.

What way do I take to get there? You are the way and the destination. How do I start? By entering into profound communication with the reality of your life as it is. How do I find this capacity, develop it? By starting with what touches you or moves you naturally.

There are times when having too much to say can be as dumbfounding as having too little.

he began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or to the waves crashing on a beach, uttering that which must be said but which must not be heard by anyone.

Simple things are almost always the hardest to explain, Julie. Showing someone how to tie a shoelace is easy. Explaining it is almost impossible.

I went out and had a drink. I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard— they always have someone to talk to.

The God of revealed religions - and by this I mean religions like yours - is a profoundly inarticulate God. No matter how many times he tries, he can't make himself clearly or completely understood. He speaks for centuries to the Jews, but fails to make himself understood. At last he sends his only-begotten son, and his son can't seem to do any better.

I don't think there's any loneliness greater than the loneliness to be found in a bad marriage. In solitary confinement, everyone knows you're lonely and feels sorry for you. In a bad marriage loneliness is your darkest secret, one you dare not even share with your spouse.

couldn't go on, and in my anguish at not being able to tell him this, I thought him this, with all the mental power I possessed. He was stunned—as was I when I saw that he'd heard my mental cry.

WHAT you DO NOT KNOW YOURSELF, you CANNOT TEACH ANOTHER.

If it seems like he's going to die she'll call for me. This is how we talk. In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end. So

You are a good dad," I say. "Thanks," he says, and his eyelids flutter a bit, as if he's heard what he's come to hear. This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go. "So.

Thanks," he says, and his eyelids flutter a bit, as if he's heard what he's come to hear. This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.

Because you and Al have all the truth with you over there. Don't know what I'm talking about, I guess. My apologies to you who knows better.

Nothing in this world compares to writing and being read.

His eyes did not track when they were talking, and when he blinked, which wasn't often, she could count to three before his eyelids touched.

What matters is that we're all thinking beings, and if we are thinking beings we ought to be able to find common ground somewhere.

I said shut up once already, with my mouth.

I don't mind if the couple next to me is tense or the kids are whiny. I'd even be happy to hear an honest argument, evidence of thinking. I'd like to know these teeth-perfect families don't just buy each other stuff but just occasionally can talk to one another.

Every couple needs to argue now and then just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive.

"Trying" is the biggest mistake you can make early on in a relationship. It sets a false expectation that you will eventually tire of.