Shannon Purser Quotes

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

Women care about their friends.

I am thankful to all the people who have loved and listened to me.

Being in relationship with others helps us know ourselves better.

Don't take your friends for granted or that everyone is going to be OK.

I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.

My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening.

We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.

The most valuable thing that anyone will ever give you is their time. Not their money. Remember that.

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed.

The shortest distance between two people is a smile.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.