“It takes time and the conscious choice to listen.”

“Love is a choice.”

“Love is a choice you make everyday.”

“Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart.”

“Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.”

“The choice to do or say something for the other person's benefit, that would help make them a better person, something that would enrich their lives and make their lives more meaningful for them.”

“Professor Leo Buscaglia notes, "There seems to be accumulating evidence that there is actually an inborn need for this togetherness, this is human interaction, this love. It seems that without these close ties with other human beings, a new born infant, for example, can regress developmentally, lose consciousness, fall into idocy and die.”