Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes

I think that's a connection that you can only hope for. It's not something that you can make because it needs someone else.

When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

You don't build a bond without being present.

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

A relationship is based on communication.

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.

One hardly dares to say that love is the core of the relationship, though love is sought for and created in relationship; love is rather the marvel when it is there, but it is not always there, and to know another and to be known by another - that is everything.

For those who are understood no need to explain

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.

We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.

It's about us. It's about trust.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

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.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

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

I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.

The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

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

I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.

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