Christopher Moore Quotes

People call me and they want talk, they need to get something off their mind, I got all the time in the world for them.

Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares.

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

Employ empathy.

Helping begins with listening.

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.

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.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.

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.

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

'Talk to me,' it's what you say to someone to let them know you're there. Just three simple words. But saying them out loud could help save a life.

Be nice to people and look after your relationships.

We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

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

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

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

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard.

Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.