Quotes About Relationships

We see Humble Inquiry as primarily about reducing one's ignorance, making sense of complicated situations, and in that process, deepening relationships. In contrast, the primary role of helping inquiry is to influence—to teach, coach, counsel, and heal.

building relationships between humans is an intricate adaptive process because it requires us to deal simultaneously with our biologically encoded impulses to both compete and cooperate in a cultural context that tends to favor one over the other. In our U.S. culture, it can be especially difficult to build enough trust to feel comfortable asking for help.

We also live in a structured society in which building relationships is not as important as task accomplishment, in which it is appropriate and expected that the subordinate does more asking than telling, while the boss does more telling that asking. Having to ask is a sign of weakness or ignorance, so we avoid it as much as possible.

Humble Inquiry is the skill and the art of drawing someone out, of asking questions to which you do not already know the answer, of building a relationship based on curiosity and interest in the other person.

The world is becoming more technologically complex, interdependent, and culturally diverse, which makes the building of relationships more and more necessary to get things accomplished and, at the same time, more difficult. Relationships are the key to good communication; good communication is the key to successful task accomplishment; and Humble Inquiry, based on Here-and-now Humility, is the key to good relationships. Increasingly

There is no marriage in Heaven, but there is love.

This is life's sorrow: That one can be happy only where two are; And that our hearts are drawn to stars Which want us not.

What we share with another ceases to be our own.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

The village idiots in her bed Never cared that her eyes were red Never cared that her brain was dead. In the hours that her face was alive It was a thing just to be by her side.

Accepting the loss of a loved one is difficult. But reconciling with the living is just as important.

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

He is not a pleasant person,' I said. 'I don't know what we need him for.' 'You'll just have to learn to get along with him,' my mother replied. We were speaking of her husband, the man she had chosen to father her children.

Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving out another important thing altogether. None of us will ever be perfectly balanced in our spiritual lives, our intellectual lives, our emotional lives, our family lives, in relationships with other human beings, or in our business lives. BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED TO TRY, WITH THE HELP OF GOD. We are meant to live in the scriptures.

Hain't life woth livin', Uncle Jabez?" she asked. He laughed a short, harsh laugh and fell silent. "Waal, I dunno, Judy," he said at last, meditatively shifting his quid of tobacco. "I reckon it makes a big diff'rence who you live it with an' a bigger diff'rence yet what work yuh lay yer hand to. Both o' them things, as I see it, is a matter of luck.

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

The Misses Bale don't like it a bit, but I say to them, "Titty," I say -or as it may be, "Tatty" – their names are Titania and Tatiana -that awful mother of theirs –

If somebody doesn't like you, there's nothing you can do to make that person like you.

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

Like many hard-bitten cynics, he cried easily and was always falling into fluttery love with his type, clean-cut Yalies.