Paul Rust Quotes

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

Sometimes, the best thing to do is just to sit down and listen to another person's experience and listen how they express themselves and want to be seen by others.

It sounds cliche, but communication is the number one way to keep a relationship solid.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. People who feel like they're being listened to feel accepted and appreciated. They feel like they're being taken seriously and what they say really matters.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

I don't know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard.

To all the women that I've offended, I had no intention to be offensive, to violate any physical or emotional space. I was trying to establish personal relationships, but the combination of awkwardness and hubris led to behavior that I think many found offensive.

If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things.

A relationship is based on communication.

When you're in the world I'm in, sometimes you have to remember that when you see your friends, you need to ask them what they've been doing, and you need to grow up and learn your life isn't necessarily more interesting than other people's.

Empathy goes a long way, for sure. We cannot have healthy, loving, mutually respectful relationships without it. But we're not psychic. At least I'm not. And intuition can only take you so far, especially when a person's sense of safety, comfort, and self-worth hangs in the balance.

I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.

One of the things I say is, 'You cannot control your spouse, but you can influence your spouse.' And one of the ways to influence your spouse is to make sure you are meeting their need for love.