Joseph Addison Quotes

We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.

I'm a talkative person because I like to get to know a person and I like you to get to know me.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

I love talking to people and finding out their opinion.

I think that sharing experiences with a person is very valuable, because it allows you to have a bond to become closer.

I try to make really close bonds with people.

Me and 50 had a conversation. We good.

Everybody understands companionship, wants it, gets it, no matter what it looks like.

Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.

Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do. There is an old expression that says, 'Misery likes company,' and people who are suffering in hell don't want to be all alone.

Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends.

Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

We have our own thoughts, and if we want others to know them, we must tell them.

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

A good friend is worth pursuing... but why would a good friend be running away?

There were some things Reagan liked that I liked. The main component was that people have to talk to each other and help themselves.

Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker.