Relationships Quotes

I got real important relationships in my life that are very empowering relationships.

How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

Price is not a consideration when a personal relationship exists.

My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.

I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself.

Personal relationships are often based on affection - professional relationships can have affection but they must have mutual understanding, trust and respect.

I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women.

It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships, if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other.

I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife

All human relationships must be purchased with money.

If you bring five percent more awareness to your work tomorrow, or to your most important relationship, what might you do differently? Are you willing to find out?

Your confidence grows as you get older, particularly when you're in a loving relationship. Everything strengthens.

Outside of our relationship with the Lord, marriage is right next to it. It's an important relationship and you hear that analogy all the time. There's no better one than that for sure.

I'm very domestic, and I think that keeps me sane. My personal relationships keep me grounded.

You just have to keep in mind that the important relationship is the relationship with the audience. That's what I try to do. Everything else is secondary.

When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.

I'll do things that maybe other people would be afraid to do or afraid to say. But in my personal life, I'm actually very responsible with my personal relationships.

The primary place where most people lose energy is in their relationships with others. That means you lose your energy in your interactions with the people you know best.

If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you need to sever the relationship.

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

Bringing up a child in a loving relationship is the most important thing.

The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

Remembering and seeing are not the same, and that is why memories are of little use to us in forming loving relationships.

Finding ways to organize work in which people are not locked into unequal power relationships is very important. Having said that, it's not easily done, and it's complicated.

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.

One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns and derives from love.

Even if toxic people are right about what is "good, " they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.

Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed portions of it.

I suggest to you, late or not late, the moment you have discovered that the mission of someone is to pee on your dreams, keep him away or keep away from him.

Romantic love is the most selfish of all emotions.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire the other is to get it.

There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.

It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.

Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experience it, it can become one of the richest feelings they have ever had.

...one can never leave home...one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes...

This hand shall never more come near thee with such friendship

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains.

LADY BRACKNELLTo speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.