Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.

I just give off this kind of feminine vibe which has... served me so well with women in my life.

You can tell a workingman you like him, but he knows whether you are sincere or not. You can't make him believe you are interested in his welfare unless you are.

If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.

Trying to learn to be a good man is like learning to play tennis against a wall. You are only a good man - a competent, capable, interesting and lovable man - when you're doing it for, or with, other people.

A man who does not know how to have a relationship of friendship with a woman - I'm not talking about misogynists, who are sick - well, he's a man who is missing something.

I think my greatest talent really is for friendship.

A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby - take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone.

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

I'm good at picking friends.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

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

I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.

I'm always impressed by confidence, kindness and a sense of humour.

Jesus said, 'Greater things of these you shall do...' Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character.

Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.

I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.

In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.