Ian Fleming Quotes

I love being around people who care about me, and I care about them.

When I had dinner with a friend or a loved one and one of you pays for the check and the other says, "I owe you next time." I like to think that we're eternally even - that they don't owe me anything or I don't owe them anything if you have a connection with somebody or a love with somebody. I like to think that there's no debt to pay. You love each other and you're happy to pay for dinner every time.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

I believe in working with the hearts of people, and not locking them up.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.

Love is the substance of human survival.

Every time I get off the phone with one of my friends, I tell them I love them.

No one can live without love.

I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.

Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the hope that somebody will care for you - plus our language, the language, a language - is about all we have. With everything else going on, this is what makes us, what keeps us human.

I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

Through your love for each other, through learning the art of making one person happy, you learn to express your love for the whole of humanity and all beings. Please help us develop the curriculum for the Institute for the Happiness of One Person. Don't wait until we open the school. You can begin practicing right away.

You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

Listening is one of the forms of love.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

You can't go wrong with love.