relationships
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘relationships’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.” -Keith Richards
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“The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.” -Franz Kafka
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“I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don’t have with anybody else, but that’s not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.” -Ziggy Marley
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“I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don’t know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.” -Marion Cotillard
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“Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it’s always a tough thing and hard to get over.” -Adam Brody
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“Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can’t provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.” -Alanis Morissette
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“So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!” -Eddie Izzard
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“Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I’ve learned so much. I’m happier than I’ve every been.” -Paris Hilton
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“There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing.” -Kim Kardashian
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“When people hold you in high esteem, it’s very delicate relationship. When they meet you they’re putting all their chips up. It’s make or break.” -Henry Rollins
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“If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?” -Virginia Woolf
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“Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.” -Laura Schlessinger
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“As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.” -Babe Ruth
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“But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.” -Bono
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“It’s important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.” -Christina Aguilera
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“Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others – how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.” -Ang Lee
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“Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.” -A. Philip Randolph
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“Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.” -Rush Limbaugh
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“American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.” -William J. Clinton
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“Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.” -Dick Gregory
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“We have a strange and wonderful relationship – he’s strange and I’m wonderful.” -Mike Ditka
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“There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.” -John Clayton
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“I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.” -Randy Harrison
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“Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don’t any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.” -Doug Coupland
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“If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.” -James A. Baldwin
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“I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don’t see things clearly as long as you’re still involved.” -Dido Armstrong
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“However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.” -Francesca Annis
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“The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.” -Quentin Crisp
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“There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.” -William F. Buckley, Jr.
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“You don’t repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently – and I think that is what is going to make the difference.” -Patricia Hewitt
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“I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn’t necessarily believe in.” -Oliver Reed
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“I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose.” -Rita Rudner
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“My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“I’m not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It’s not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.” -Ben Affleck
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“I’m so wrapped up in my work that it’s often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.” -Jim Carrey
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“It’s interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, ‘You shouldn’t do this, you shouldn’t do that.’ But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That’s why you have…
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“Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.” -Mitt Romney
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“I’m quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That’s been my approach, for the most part.” -Orlando Bloom
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“Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it’s not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.” -Amy Grant
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“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” -William James
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“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” -Martin Luther
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“The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for…
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“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.” -Erich Fromm
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“You want to believe that there’s one relationship in life that’s beyond betrayal. A relationship that’s beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn’t.” -Caleb Carr
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“When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.” -Joseph Campbell
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“The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.” -John Ruskin
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“It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.” -Norman Vincent Peale
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“Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.” -Eminem
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“In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?” -Carl Rogers
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“There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you’ll stand firm if you stand on His love.” -Charles Stanley
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“I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.” -Bob Dylan
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“So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.” -Alan Watts
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“Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.” -Jawaharlal Nehru
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“A relationship is lovely if you’re happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there’s nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.” -Susannah York
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“I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don’t talk back, they don’t sue, and they don’t have angry relatives.” -Ron Chernow
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“Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.” -Ralph Ellison
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“In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.” -Graham Greene
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“If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.” -Ben Kingsley
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“When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.” -Ramakrishna
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“I don’t think it’s necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.” -Anjelica Huston
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“Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.” -Marianne Faithfull
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“For the most part, that message hasn’t changed a lot over the years – love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.” -Casey Kasum
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“A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.” -T. Berry Brazelton
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“It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.” -Anthony Storr
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“Death ends a life, not a relationship.” -Jack Lemon
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“You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.” -Victoria Pratt
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“God gives us relatives thank God, we can choose our friends.” -Addison Mizner
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“The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.” -Joan Baez
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“I don’t even like to use the word relationship. I don’t know what it means.” -Ron Silver
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“You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don’t go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.” -Daisy Fuentes
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“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” -Buddha
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“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.” -Margaret Mead
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“If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.” -Steve Jobs
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“Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.” -Mason Cooley
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“We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.” -Andy Warhol
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“Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.” -Mike Murdock
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“Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.” -W. H. Auden
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“It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.” -Hermann Hesse
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“It’s nice to be with someone, but I don’t think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad.” -Kristin Davis
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“I’m done with men… I’m going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don’t think I’m made for marriage.” -Halle Berry
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“In a relationship you have to open yourself up.” -Neil LaBute
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“I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.” -Michael Caine
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“Every relationship I’ve been in, I’ve overwhelmed the girl. They just can’t handle all the love.” -Justin Timberlake
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“I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being ‘someone’s girlfriend’, and now I am happy being single.” -Penelope Cruz
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“I can’t even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.” -Gilbert Gottfried
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“I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.” -Jasmine Guy
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“You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.” -Taylor Swift
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“Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“Truth is, I’ll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open…
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“A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.” -Greta Scacchi
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“I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.” -Julia Roberts
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“Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.” -Oliver Hudson
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“Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.” -Wayne Dyer
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“Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo
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“God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.” -Billy Graham
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“I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.” -Richard Bach
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“It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.” -Groucho Marx
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“You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.” -Kirsten Dunst
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“Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.” -H. L. Mencken
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“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.” -Pietro Aretino
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“The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.” -Robert Anthony
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“Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.” -Homer
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“Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.” -Lauryn Hill
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“You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.” -Keith Sweat
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“Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” -Euripides
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“Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.” -Denis Waitley
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“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” -Epicurus
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“A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
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“The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.” -Hugh Mackay
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“I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.” -David Rockefeller
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“So many people prefer to live in drama because it’s comfortable. It’s like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship – it’s actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.” -Ellen DeGeneres
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“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.” -B. R. Ambedkar
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“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” -Henry Winkler
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“I don’t need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.” -Shirley MacLaine
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