Quotes about Communication

what is most personal and unique in each one of us is probably the very element which would, if it were shared or expressed, speak most deeply to others.

When you let your wounded self express itself in the form of apologies, arguments, or complaints—through which it cannot be truly heard—you will only grow frustrated and increasingly feel rejected.

Truth does not mean an idea, concept, or doctrine, but the true relationship.

If you see in me more than my function or job, then I can slowly communicate to you on a deeper level. I can become a person to you.

Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with each other and allow their respective life experiences to be their primary and most valuable source of growth and maturation. It asks for a mutual trust in which those who teach and those who want to learn can become present to each other, not as opponents, but as those who share in the same struggle and search for the same truth.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.

In my house we were so near that we could not begin to hear -- we could not speak low enough to be heard; as when you throw two stones into calm water so near that they break each other's undulations.

If you can speak what you will never hear,—if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things