Quotes About Communication

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Love is two minds of one heart having a conversation without either having the need of saying anything to be heard.

Grumbling is the death of love.

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

The most human thing we have to do in life is is to learn to speak our honest convictions and feelings and live with the consequences. This is the first requirment of love, and it makes us vulnerable to other people who may ridicule us. But our vulnerability is the only thing we can give to other people.

The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love, bottling

And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything through, to analyze and hypothesize, what I really need, what I'm really looking for, is not something I can articulate. It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain turns off and your heart turns on.

Andy: Look at our love fern! It's dead! Ben: No it's only sleeping.

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.

Life is very short and there's no time, for fussing and fighting my friend. I have always thought that it's a crime, so I will ask you once again: try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out.

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. [It is] when they are in love and reading a love letter.

Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up

We sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?

He saith little that loveth much

There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall. If it would land on me, that would say it all.

If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.