Of course it matters if they have feelings for you or not, but eh, it wouldn't be the first step you'd take in my opinion. Finding out if someone likes you goes deeper than just a stare. Sometimes it can take a long long time for someone to develop feelings for another. If I could pick anything out of my life experience and what I've seen with others, talking to the significant guy or girl can also do suffice. I mean, as I say, not everyone is the same, sometimes love or finding out about someone elses feelings can be as an unexpected kiss.
This is most certainly not truth. The biggest issue here is that you could become too close as friends and forever be that way. Even if the two do have feelings for eachother, they may not want to admit it due to how close they are as friends and don't wish to lose their friendship. I know this because it's happened. Though what I would agree with is that you should always get to know someone first before considering a relationship with them. Though friends do sometimes end up together, the worst place you can be is in the friend zone when all you want to be is out of it.
Money cannot buy love. It doesn't matter how cheap or expensive something is, if the one you want is someone who can be bought with gifts, it's not going to be worth it. A relationship should not be based on gifts. Though if you were to give them something, something from the heart, something sentimental is the best gift you can give and I know I can't be argued on that. At the end of the day, sentimentality lives forever, material gifts are but a quick over the counter exchange. Of course they can overlap, but at least that way it still has thought.
How do you suggest you do ask them out then? I mean I wouldn't try this the first time I meet someone, I'd have to get to know them first and experience some bit of chemistry first. But if you never ask the girl/guy out, nothing will happen, unless you wait, not everyone is so up front of course. If you dont eventually show your feelings, through words or through actions, the other will never know. I agree to a margin of an extent, I think you've just forgotten to mention timing.
Kind of relates to no.2, which also kind of contradicts what you said, but in any case, yes, you should always consider whether your frienship is worth risking. You don't want the heartache to kill what you once had so that it can never be relinquished.
Agreed, it amazes me how many people change just to impress someone. I mean, if someone doesn't like you for who you are, they're not going to develop feelings for you if you change into something you're not. All you can do is be who you are and possibly work on what you have, I dont mean go out and get a new attitude and a facial or anything, just think about things more and possibly improve on your faults if you happen to have any. I had a lousy personality, eventually I noticed it, so I worked on it and evetually I stopped being as arrogant as I was. I've seen it happen to people I know, it's not changing persay, it's just being a better person or at least, letting something out that was locked within your emotions.
Again, sorta contradictory to no.4 but in any case, this is necessary. I mean, it's the opposite sex, not someone who will strike you down if you make a mistake. The best thing you can do is just relax, and read no.6 again, be yourself.
A girl who talks may never mean a thing, but a guy who listens might end up being the first one ever to do so. If you care about someone, you're going to listen to them anyway. Like I said at the start of this post, there isn't any tricks to getting someone to like you. If you don't listen to someone it could always be down to the fact that you two might not have anything in common. Without having interest in what the person has to say, there isn't going to be much hope for the relationship.
Love can hurt, you hear it all the time. But really there's nothing to be afraid of. Every trajic love story can be put on the lighter side of life with an old saying we've all heard "It's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all". I've heard little else more truthfull in that.
