Building relationships Quote by Kirsten Siggins

“We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the…

— Donna Goddard

“At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized, at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame…

— Barack Obama

“we all have a tendency to mistrust each other, to be suspicious of what we don’t understand.”

— Heather Graham

“Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much…

— Jane Austen

“At times, we know when people are cheating us, but sadly we've become desensitised to our instincts.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

“that we never know what’s in the heart of people when we judge them. Actions that sometimes seem mean aren’t. Rather they are done…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“People see what they want see and understand what only they can understand. Leave aside the guilt and the blame; no man could think,…

— Mircea Popister

“No one is more avidly curious about other people's doings than those persons whom they do not concern.”

— Victor Hugo

“Actually, I am asking myself if conversations with friends always feel like this--two minds bound together by their focus on the same subject.”

— Francisco X. Stork

“Why do people, when they are wrong, twist the conversation around and place the blame on someone else?”

— Hilary Grossman

“Blaming our actions rather than our character allows us to feel guilt instead of shame.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

“Humility and shame have been confused. Humility is knowing that you know nothing for sure and shame is someone having to tell you.”

— Erica Goros