Communication Quotes

"You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue."

C. JoyBell C.

"I consider conversations with people to be mind exercises, but I don't want to pull a muscle, so I stretch a lot. That's why I'm constantly either rolling my eyes or yawning."

Jarod Kintz

"The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss."

Jarod Kintz

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."

Charles Dickens

"Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear."

Judy Blume

"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."

Hermann Hesse

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."

Henry Winkler

"Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone."

Fred Rogers

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise."

Shannon L. Alder

"In the land of Gibberish, the man who makes sense, the man who speaks clearly, clearly speaks nonsense."

Jarod Kintz

"She said, “I’m having the stairs rebuilt,” and I replied, “No need to get sexual with me.” I’m a bring my own elevator kind of lover anyway."

Jarod Kintz

"The middle finger is a great body language tool for letting people know you’re upset. Poetry isn’t quite as effective in a fit of road rage."

Jarod Kintz

"She asked me how I slept. Knowing she meant quality of sleep, I said I slept naked. It’s true. Ask any of the joggers who saw me sleepwalking."

Jarod Kintz

"She looked so sexy with her sixteen cats that I just had to swipe right, but when she messaged me first quoting Monty Python, I knew it was Tinder love. Maybe on the first date we’ll knit the blanket we’ll make love under."

Jarod Kintz

"I love letting her know how much she means to me. A love in secret is but a shadow that’s cold and lonely."

Jarod Kintz

"Telephone pole wires get in the way of great photos. Communication always gets in the way of communication."

Jarod Kintz

"I lost interest in her because she said the wrong thing. She said nothing."

Jarod Kintz

"The best part about being a writer is being able to communicate with people without moving my lips. The mouth is better used for kissing."

Jarod Kintz

"Knocking on a door is so violent. Instead, try talking to the door to get it to open up to you. I should write a self-help book for door-to-door salesmen."

Jarod Kintz

"A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it."

Steve Maraboli

"Silence is expansive, filling up a whole room in seconds, like a balloon filled with awkwardness. It’s amazing how saying nothing can be so different from having nothing to say."

Jarod Kintz

"When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret."

Shannon L. Alder

"Knocking on a door is so violent. Talk on the door. Try to get it to open up through communication, not violence."

Jarod Kintz

"A word to the wise is infuriating."

Hunter S. Thompson

"I spoke like a spoke on a wheel, as I went around and around without actually saying what I wanted to say. I was love flustered."

Jarod Kintz

"My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the more my heart flutters like a rising phoenix.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz"

Karen Quan

"She cuts me deep with her words, with her withholding of words, and with her knife. I’m not sure which is the most painful."

Jarod Kintz

"Be memorable. Say something unforgettable. Be silent."

Jarod Kintz

"She’s ignoring my texts. Maybe she’s dead. Oh, I certainly hope so. I’d hate to think she’s being deliberately unresponsive."

Jarod Kintz

"You can use your mouth to speak the words I love you, or you can use your mouth to kiss me and transport love from your mind to my heart."

Jarod Kintz

"I have two ears, so why can’t I listen to two things at once? A politician only has one mouth, yet doublespeaks all the time."

Jarod Kintz

"How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul."

Frances Hodgson Burnett

"Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children."

Greg Mortenson

"How would your life be different if…You pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the day…You let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions."

Steve Maraboli

"Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding..."

Brian Greene

"Words are magic. They have the power to hurt and to heal, and even withholding them has the power to hurt and to heal. What else has as much potency in its absence and can do without doing? What I mean is, even when you don’t say anything, you are communicating as effectively as if you’d spoken."

Jarod Kintz

"I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe."

Jacques Derrida

"To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand."

Shannon L. Alder

"When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember."

Shannon L. Alder

"You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there."

David Levithan

"What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them."

Toni Morrison

"And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit."

Timothy Leary

"It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about."

Orson Scott Card

"They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover."

David Rovics

"You can have regret from yesterday, fear tomorrow, but peace today by sharing your heart’s deepest feelings. A life spent being fearful of showing your soul is a life not worth living."

Shannon L. Alder

"Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace."

Shannon L. Alder

"When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided."

Shannon L. Alder

"People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices"

Gary L. Francione

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