Sushma Swaraj Quotes

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

If you are sitting on the couch with the TV off, and you are looking into each other's eyes and talking, that is quality time - so is taking a walk or going out to eat, so long as you are communicating with each other.

It is indeed specially characteristic of the passion of love that it has the faculty of giving a perpetual flow to the interchange of sentiments and reflections in conversation.

I like to spend time with family and friends and share my experiences with them.

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.

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

It was quite nice meeting up because we went through a lot together and we haven't really seen each much other to communicate one to one for quite a long time.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

If your husband asks what you think, tell him. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask it. If you want to cry, bawl. If you need help, raise your hand and jump up and down.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

I speak with my father about everything in my life.

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

For there to be communication within a couple, it is enough for there to be only one person who communicates or who really wants to communicate. Even though a couple consists of two people, if one of the people in a couple puts all their effort into moving a couple along they will move along.

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

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

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.

My favorite thing in the world is to have just a big dinner with friends and just sit and talk about their life and their difficulties and all of that.