Ugo Betti Quotes

We must study love the way we study anything else that matters.

My mother taught me to ask people about the things they love.

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

You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

The first duty of love is to listen.

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.

As in all areas, we can improve how good we are at loving another person.

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

I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to.

This precious thing of empathy and love and understanding is something we have to hold and appreciate and protect.

The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.

Unless you listen, people are weazened in your presence; they become about a third of themselves. Unless you listen, you can't know anybody. Oh, you will know facts and what is in the newspapers and all of history, perhaps, but you will not know one single person. You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

People don't need sex so much as they need to be listened to.

Sometimes its nice when people you love need you.

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

A little love and attention can go a long way...too bad more people don't realize that.

At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now?

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help.

Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.

We can't always see people's pain; they can always feel our love.