#om

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there. ↗

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#communication

Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#communication

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#conversation #art

Unnerved, Summerset moved quickly to the communication center. "Roarke, the lieutenant has just come in from outside. She wore no outer gear. She looks very bad." "Where is she?" "She's heading up. Roarke, I insulted her and...she apologized to me. Something must be done. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#summerset #communication

Simon," she said. "It's a perfectly fine plan." "The plan where you follow Jace and Sebastion off to some unknown dimensional pocket and we use these rings to communicate so those of us over here in the regular dimension of Earth can track you down? That plan?" "Yes." "No," he said. "No, it isn't. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#communication

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#effective-communication #humor #ignorance #knowledge #wisdom

It takes one to tell, and two to missunderstand. ↗

— H.C. Paye

#missunderstand #people #speak #tell #two

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#communication #thought #communication

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. ↗