Books Quote by Winnie Dunn

. . . our lives are shaped by our interactions with others. Whether we have a long conversation with a friend or simply place…

— Donald O. Clifton

When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The less time…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“Mutual emotional responsiveness is the single most essential ingredient of human relationships.”

— Lindsay C. Gibson

“The wonderful world of human relationships is a rich mixture of backgrounds, perceptions, habits, preferences, behaviors, and motivators. These differences can create barriers to…

— Susan C. Young

Sometimes we maintain a silence to protect relationship but to much silence create a distance in every beautiful relationship

— Sanya Khan

“A relationship calls for sympathetic listening with a view to understanding the other person’s thoughts, feelings, and desires.”

— Gary Chapman

We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.

— Karl Jaspers

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from…

— Andy Rooney

“In fact, it seems that the more spontaneous and "healthy" a relationship, the more the relationship aspect of communication recedes into the background.”

— Paul Watzlawick

“Relationships thrive when communication reflects a ready acceptance and respect of people's innate differences.”

— John Gray

We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.

— Harriet Lerner

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

— Anonymous