Interpersonal Communications Quotes

“If you have to be told how you should feel then those feelings are not strong enough to make you feel alive; they become rules that don’t fit your life script. Not every person will place the same importance as you do on one of the six human needs: certainty, variety, significance, connection/love, growth or contributions. When you know what is most important for yourself and learn to recognize what need is the most important to others, then you can begin to unlock the real reason behind conflict.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“If you put yourself in the emotion that you want from others, you are more likely to receive it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“There are silences and there are silences; some are wordless, yet you communicate; others are like loud black voids which separate and isolate people.”
― Susan Strasberg, Bittersweet