Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.
Interpretation
Being a good listener fosters love and respect in communication.
This quote emphasizes the importance of active listening in relationships. By truly listening to someone, you demonstrate that you value their thoughts and feelings, which fosters a sense of love and worth in the speaker. Listening with care allows for deeper connections and enhances the quality of interpersonal interactions.
In practice
During a team meeting to foster better collaboration.
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement? Of course not. What will matter then will be people. If relationships will matter most then, shouldn't they matter most now?
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.
The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
Growing marriages aren't determined by how much you have in common but by how graciously you deal with your differences.
I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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