William Jennings Bryan Quotes

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

A relationship is based on communication.

It's kind of cliche, but communication is the biggest thing in a relationship. You have to talk; you have to express yourselves. You don't want to look back and resent not being heard.

When a woman says the connection is gone, don't tell her how hot she is. A connection is more than someone's appearance.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

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

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

Mandy because that was the most meaningful relationship.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.

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.

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

That's important, apologizing, listening, you know, I think the teens I speak with, most of them don't feel understood. They feel like they're being lectured to all the time.

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

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

Love without conversation is impossible.