#cat

We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who's right and who's wrong. We do that with the people who are closest to us and we do it with political systems, with all kinds of things that we don't like about our associates or our society. It is a very common, ancient, well-perfected device for trying to feel better. Blame others....Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself. Rather than own that pain, we scramble to find some comfortable ground. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#compassion #inspiration #communication

It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window. ↗

— Sam Harris

#mental-illness #communication

How would your life be different if…You pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the day…You let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#communication #compassion #inspirational #intentions #kindness

I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave ↗

— Bob Dylan

#communication

Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#communication

If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask, 'Is it I?' Communication skills are no substitute for Christlike attributes. As Dr. Douglas Brinley has observed, 'Without theological perspectives, secular exercises designed to improve our relationship and our communication skills (the common tools of counselors and marriage books) will never work any permanent change in one's heart: they simply develop more clever and skilled fighters! ↗

— John Bytheway

#humility #marriage #change

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#call #calling #communication #daine #hearing

it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds." - Barack Obama, 44th U.S. President ↗

— Barack Obama

#friendship #healing #communication

It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#relationships #communication

Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#communication