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.
In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.
One of the things I really love about restaurants is that in many ways, they are the ultimate democratic institutions, where you get to walk in the door, plunk down your money, and for however long that you're there, you can be anyone you want to be.
When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.
Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small stove, squeezing past each other on the narrow stairs, shaving in front of the same small bathroom mirror, constantly jogging, jostling, bumping against each otherβs bodies by mistake or on purpose, sensually, aggressively, awkwardly, impatiently, in rage or in love β think what deep though invisible tracks they must leave, everywhere, behind them!
A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
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