Quotes About Relationships

there is always a fundamental distinction between the way one relates to friends, family, neighbourhood, people and places that we actually know directly, and the way one relates to empires, nations and metropolises, phenomena that exist largely, or at least most of the time, in our heads.

Solitary pleasures will always exist, but for most human beings, the most pleasurable activities almost always involve sharing something: music, food, liquor, drugs, gossip, drama, beds.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

She had not known how to tell him that his loving whispers were always in her ears, like a story she'd been told, the story of a thing she did not deserve. But he understood. He called those thoughts "the baby teeth of a snake," and swore he would rip them out of her, and pledged to prove to her that the opposite was true. And he didn't even have to explain to her what he meant by "the opposite"; she knew it was the opposite of her.

Amore è il fatto che tu sei per me il coltello con cui frugo dentro me stesso". -------- Non si può guarire solo con le parole. Ammalarsi sì. Probabilmente non è molto difficile. Ma consolare? Far riviere? Per questo occorre vedere degli occhi di fonte a sè, toccare delle labbra, delle mani, un corpo che si ribella e strepita contro le tue idee infantili di astrattezza "pura". Cosa c'è di puro? Cosa c'è di puro in me ora?

Dove sei? Come curi questo mal di cuore? So che soffri quanto me. Forse persino più di me, perchè in questo momento ti siamo entrambi contro.

Cosa credi? Che voglia stare sola? Ma sono fatta così, non riesco ad avvicinarmi veramente a nessuno. È un dato di fatto. È come se mi mancasse quella parte d'anima che si incastra negli altri, come nel Lego. Che si unisce veramente a qualcun altro. Alla fine tutto cade a pezzi. Famiglia, amici. Non resta più niente.

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

It is ironic that a business in which the serving of clients depends so heavily on interpersonal psychology should be peopled with those who believe in the exclusive power of technical mastery. And

McDonald's likes to describe professionals that serve them (such as advertising agencies) as having "ketchup in their veins.

Guggenbühl-Craig, A. (1977) Marriage: Dead or Alive. Dallas: Spring Publications.

Buber, M. (1990) The Way of Man.

He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

Dependence breeds neither cordiality nor respect. - Pg. 77

A husband betrayed was a cuckold. A woman treated the same way was a wife.

the physical structure of the Songhay village … consists of series of open spaces, each encircled by a cluster of thatched houses, which are interconnected by a labyrinth of lanes and narrow paths … as in many African societies, the Songhay apply metaphors of pathways to social relationships. For example, the reason for giving a gift to an in-law may be expressed as: "So that the path between us does not die".

I consider you mine, because Donna considered you hers.

In contrast to Genesis chapters 2 and 3, where the tone is more intimate, the context more homely, and the centre of attention is on human relationships,

young Barack spent most of his time with his fit and youthful forty-five-year-old grandfather.

Maya Soetoro-Ng declined comment to a reporter, but a family friend explained that "she was furious" over Barack's comments about their grandmother. His characterization of her "seemed completely gratuitous, even cruel," one critic rightly thought, and one of the late Stanley Dunham's close friends acidly remarked, "I have a far better opinion of both Stan and Madelyn than I have heard from Barry's speeches.

The evolutionary usefulness of the ability to recognize patterns and then infer the causal relationships they represent is demonstrated by the fact that precisely the same development of "superstitions" occurs in animals.

Making love" denoted the manufacture of something that would need to be maintained.

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.