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- Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
- C. C. Colton
- Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.
- Philip Saltier
- Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
- Dale Carnegie
- Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.
- Author Unknown
- A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
- Kenneth A. Wells
- To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened.
- Robert C. Murphy
- After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.
- Author Unknown
- Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Hyman G. Rickover
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