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The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.
The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
Sometimes a fight saves a relationship, where silence breaks it. Speak up for your heart, so that you won't have read more
Sometimes a fight saves a relationship, where silence breaks it. Speak up for your heart, so that you won't have regrets.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly read more
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is read more
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months read more
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; read more
A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
