Words of Wisdom

“Communication is the solvent of all problems, therefore communication skills are the foundation for personal development.” —Peter Shepherd

“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.” —Wilson Mizner

“Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.” —Stanley Horowitz

“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.” —George Eliot

“Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, and sometimes it hurts.” —Victor M. Garcia Jr.

“To love leaves us open to loss. But we do it to ourselves because it is worth it.” —from Lark Rise to Candleford (BBC drama)

“An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.” —David Augsburger

“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” —Plato

“People who do not understand you will never settle for any proof, and people who appreciate you do not need any proof. “ —Seth (Jane Roberts)

“It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.” —Benjamin Disraeli

“Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.” —Andrew Lloyd Webber

“Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” —Les Brown

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” —Carl Jung

“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.” —Susan Sontag

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“Have the courage to be sincere, clear and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives.” —Sara Paddison

“Balance Within Chaos” by Laurie Bain

“If we center ourselves within the heart chakra and control our thoughts, we can find the balance and harmony in every situation.” —Laurie Bain

“Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.” —Donald A. Laird

“Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are - chaff and grain together - certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.” —Dinah Craik

“When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.” —Elizabeth Cameron

“People change and forget to tell each other.” —Lillian Hellman

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were” —Kahlil Gibran

“Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation.” —Sharon Salzbert

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” —Plato

“Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.” —Randolph S. Bourne

“The result of our people-judgments is that we often throw away someone’s ideas because they are voiced by the wrong person or because we don’t agree with all of their ideas.” —Thayer White

“A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” —Unknown

“The people who matter will recognize who you are.” —Alan Cohen

“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” —African proverb

“With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.” —Catherine de Hueck

“Love is touching souls.” —Joni Mitchell

“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” —William Shakespeare

“Criticism is something we can avoid easily —by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” —Aristotle

“Real love takes work. You have to be willing to make the effort.” —Rabbi Weinberg

“There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.” —Heraclitus

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.”

“The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.” —Oscar Wilde

“The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don’t want to impress. They achieve great things because they don’t look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.” —Lao Tzu

“The judgement of others does not change who I am. Quite the opposite is true. It reveals who they are.” —Terry McPhearson

“Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.” —Lao Tseu

“A friend is a person with whom I may be honest. Before him, I may think aloud.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” —Euripedes

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” —Mark Twain

“A friend is someone who knows the song of your soul and sings it back to you when you’ve forgotten the words.”

“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”

“We would not have to forgive people if we didn’t judge them in the first place.” —Barry Neil Kaufman

“Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, the other gold.”

“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” —Elbert Hubbard

“When someone’s character seems impossible to fathom, observe his friends.” —Japanese proverb

“A true friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you today, just the way you are.”

“The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.” —Oscar Wilde

“If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others.” —Dalai Lama

“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.”—Noam Chomsky

“No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” —Aesop

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” —Maya Angelou

“The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.” —Deepak Chopra

“Don’t rob a friend, a partner, family member or the world of someone that could have been a real companion, and someone that could make a difference. Don’t ever give up being special!” —Willy Conradie

“That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.” —Jim Morrison

“In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone’s letter.” —Chinese proverb

“Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.” —Chinese proverb

“We would not have to forgive people if we didn’t judge them in the first place.” —Barry Neil Kaufman

“Sentimentality - that’s what we call the sentiment we don’t share.” —Graham Green

“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distance continues to exist, a wonderful living side-by-side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.” —Rainer Maria Rilke

Everyone Has a Story in Life

A 24 year old boy seeing out from the train’s window shouted…

“Dad, look the trees are going behind!”

Dad smiled and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old’s childish behavior with pity, suddenly he again exclaimed…

“Dad, look the clouds are running with us!”

The couple couldn’t resist and said to the old man…

“Why don’t you take your son to a good doctor?”The old man smiled and said…“I did and we are just coming from the hospital, my son was blind from birth, he just got his eyes today.

Every single person on the planet has a story. Don’t judge people before you truly know them. The truth might surprise you.

I Treasure You

The process of filming with these love birds leading up to Valentine’s Day was heart-warming.  Although we list some ways to say I love you, Kelly and I realized there’s a few missing from the list that we practice each week together in our own relationship:

1. I Treasure You

For the past several years, we have been hiding a golden coin around the house.  She may find it under her tea mug, or I might flip to a page in the book I’m reading, and there’s the golden coin!  This small surprise has come to mean “I treasure you”, and every time I find it equates to a burst of positive feelings.  And then it’s my turn to hide it for her.  I can’t tell you how many times this token of affection has transformed my day.  It’s another way to say I love you, and has been a special source of wonder in our relationship.  If you like it, by all means try it with your partner!

2. The Toothbrush Trick

We all have our rituals as we get ready for bed.  We’ve tried essential oil diffusion to relax us, and a number of other ways to cap off the night.  None has stuck like our “toothbrush trick”.  Imagine entering the bathroom and seeing your toothbrush already freshly pasted with toothpaste–you don’t have to squeeze the last little bit from the tube, clearly someone has paid you an altruistic act.  It’s so small and you might think it’s silly, but it makes all the difference in improving my mood when I am trying to prepare myself for sleep.  What are other ways you can lighten the load of your lover?  You’d be surprised how simple little things make a big difference!

3. Get Weird Together

Sing a funny song in the kitchen, invent your own language, and invite your partner to PLAY.  Couples do strange things when no one is watching, and apparently there’s major health benefits when we teach each other to be more whacky and playful.  Kelly and I have noticed how life gets stale when we take things too seriously.  Also, set a spark by doing new and exciting things together.  Go skydiving, learn improv comedy, go out of your comfort zone as a couple!  It’s the best way to rekindle the passionate love that releases dopamine.  Companionate love is warm and comforting, but a dose of passion is also what we all need.

Kelly and I used to co-sponsor a love parade every Valentine’s Day.  We’d walk through downtown on our stilts together with a whole tribe of friends.  Perhaps it was that exciting peak experience we were after!

Let’s strive for less chocolate and more connection this Valentine’s Day, and please share a story with us about your unique ways of sharing love!

Quotes About Meaningful

“If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light”
― Lady Gaga

“Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. and that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. in the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

“Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Daun yang jatuh take pernah membenci angin”
― Tere Liye

“...not all stories have happy endings; but that doesn't mean they're not worth the read.”
― Cassia Leo, Black Box

“Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.”
― Dean Koontz, Relentless

“I have never learned to hate. Don't let my first lesson come from you.”
― Susan Carroll

“What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattered couldnt be shaken.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Love and Peaches

Some great sayings about life

It is said – the shorter, the better. Check the great short funny sayings about life below. But if you don’t care about longer sayings either, you may also want to visit the upper funny sayings about life page.

I was born to live, not please everyone.

And they lived happily and often ever after.

Nothing poisons life more than potassium cyanide.

Take everything from life. Just remember where you took it from.

We only live once. I couldn’t bare a second time.

1/7 of our lives are Mondays.

Living is good. But I’d prefer to live good somewhere else.

Nerve cells are born and die, and fat cells – live forever!

The longer the diagnosis, the shorter is the life left to live.

If a person really wants to live, the medicine is helpless.

Live as someone has left an open gate for you.

Life is short. Have a bit of patience…

Value the time! It’s the substance that life is made of.

If you didn’t manage to make your life great, it means life did you.

‘How’s your health?’ ‘It’s enough for life!’

Life always turns out not as you want but as it should be.

Death takes away the best people. It means that I will live long and long.

It would be nice to live as everyone else, but my conscience wouldn’t let me.

Anniversary is when there are lots of flowers and you are still alive.

Simple rule to follow in your life: do your best and let God do the rest.

If the music is too loud – most probably you’re too old.

I do very bad things, and I do them extremely well.

Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers.

Life is so short to ruin it for everyone.

Shit happens, just flush it down and move on.

Some days I just don’t have enough middle fingers to go around…

Brains are awesome, I wish everybody had one.

Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.

There is no elevator to success – you have to take the stairs.

It’s Friday today and all I have planned for tonight is drinking and drinking. Oh and, did I mention drinking?

The older you get, the better you get, unless you are a banana.

Run for your life – there are stupid people everywhere.

If life dropped you a lemon, look for salt and tequila.

Any home can be a castle when the King and Queen are in love.

You may also want to check the funny one liners page for short funny sayings.

Say that I love You

1. "The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever."
— The Notebook 
2. "I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes."
— (Unknown)

3. "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
— Victor Hugo
4. "All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love."
— Leo Tolstoy
5. "And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God."
— Les Miserables 
6. "I'm much more me when I'm with you."
— (Unknown)

7. "It's a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that's been important to you. It's actually not all that pleasurable. I don't know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can't bear an hour without somebody's company."
— Colin Firth  
8. "The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart."
— Helen Keller 
9. "To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything."
— T. Tolis
​​10. "I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more."
— Angelita Lim

11. "In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy."
— Theodor Reik​
12. "The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that."
— Woody Allen
13. "There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.'"
— Tom Hanks
14. "I swear I couldn't love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow."
— Leo Christopher

15. "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
— A. A. Milne
16. "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
17. "I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone."
— Lord of The Rings
18. "You are my best friend, my human diary and my other half. You mean the world to me and I LOVE YOU."
— (Unknown)
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​19. "If I know what love is, it is because of you."
— Herman Hesse
20. "Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her."
— Anna (Julia Roberts) to William (Hugh Grant) in Notting Hill
21. "I choose you. And I'll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I'll keep choosing you."
— (Unknown)

22. "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
― Friedrich Nietzsche
23. "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."
— When Harry Met Sally
24. "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
― Plato
25. "I realized I was thinking of you, and I began to wonder how long you'd been on my mind. Then it occurred to me: Since I met you, you've never left."
— (Unknown)

Cute quotes about love

Cute quotes about love

1. Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
~ G. Moore  

2. I’m not rushing into being in love. I’m finding fourth grade hard enough.
~ Regina ‘Age 10’  

3. I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
~ Woody Allen  

4. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
~  Ingrid Bergman  

5. I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
~ Barbara Bush  

6. Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
~ Albert Einstein  

7. We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
~ Marie E. Eschenbach  

8. Women are made to be loved, not understood.
~ Oscar Wilde  

9. At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
~ Plato  

10. Love is like an hour glass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
~ Jules Renord