Quotes About Relationships

39. Adapte-se às coisas que o destino lhe reservou. Busque amar, verdadeiramente, as pessoas com quem tem de se relacionar.

We should listen only to those whose lives conform to nature. And the others? He bears in mind what sort of people they are—both at home and abroad, by night as well as day—and who they spend their time with. And he cares nothing for their praise—men who can't even meet their own standards.

That I had the kind of brother I did. One whose character challenged me to improve my own. One whose love and affection enriched my life.

el haber aprendido cómo hay que aceptar los aparentes favores de los amigos, sin dejarse sobornar por ellos ni rechazarlos sin tacto.

One thing, if any, might have held you back and bound you to life; the chance of fellowship with kindred minds.

Há fulanos que quando fazem algum favor a alguém estão logo prontos para lançar no livro de contas o agradecimento devido.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

tactful treatment of all his friends, so that simply to be with him was more delightful than any flattery, while at the same time those who enjoyed this privilege looked up to him with the utmost reverence

Men are born for the sake of each other. So either teach or tolerate.

This is the same feeling that many managers unwittingly create in their employees. Even when working with their most productive employees, they still spend most of their time talking about each person's few areas of nontalent and how to eradicate them. No matter how well-intended, relationships preoccupied with weakness never end well.

Putting these conclusions together, this controlling insight can serve as the One Thing you need to know about happy marriage: Find the most generous explanation for each other's behavior and believe it.

people leave managers, not companies. So

Paying attention to our relationship with God matters because we ourselves are ultimately relational. It is not that wr first become selves and then have relationships. Rather, we are constituted by our relationships; they shape and form us. So also paying attention to our relationship with God will shape us.

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

We don't practise generosity in order to secure gratitude, nor do we invest our gifts in the hope of a favourable return. Rather, it is nature that inclines us towards generosity. Just so, we don't seek friendship with an expectation of gain, but regard the feeling of love as its own reward.

As for you, my young friends, I urge you to strive for virtue, for without it friendship cannot exist. And friendship, aside from virtue, is the greatest thing we can find in life.

Das also ist keine Freundschaft, dass, wenn der eine die Wahrheit nicht hören will, der andere zum Lügen bereit ist.

And so—it can't be repeated often enough—you should love after you have judged, not judge after you have loved.

But what is more foolish, when men are in the plenitude of resources, opportunities, and wealth, than to procure the other things which money provides — horses, slaves, splendid raiment, and costly plate — and not procure friends, who are, if I may say so, life's best and fairest furniture?