Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Life is about relationships, not transactions.

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.

I would go so far as to say I would not have the life that I have right now if it wasn't for Gabe Liedman. He is the first person I met in my adulthood that I felt was truly delighted by me and understood me and also was curious about me.

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

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

I think, when you get to know somebody on a personal level were you truly understand what makes them tick, what they play for, things they like to do in their spare time, you're around their families, I think you're kind of able to kind of coexist more when you have a relationship.

This may be a bit of a broad statement, but I don't think there's anyone that I've met that I haven't created a bit of a deep relationship with. It's a really lovely thing to create a relation with people that might not anticipate that closeness. And that's kind of the light of my life, getting to be close to people.

Empathy is about two people - two people meeting, getting to know each other and tuning in to what the other person is thinking and feeling.

A friendship has to be cultivated. A friendship you have to give time.

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

You have to give love to get love.

We must take our friends as they are.

There is always someone in the world who is better or worse off than yourself, and I've never seen that - in either direction - as a barrier to becoming friends with somebody.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

Your friend is your needs answered.