Quotes About Relationships

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.

How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them.

To conceal resentment against a person, and appear friendly with him;— Tso Ch'iu-ming was ashamed of such conduct.

If I am walking with two people, both will be my teachers

He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.

There is never a case when the root is in order and yet the branches are in order

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Confucius This is a major problem in America, where greed, power, and money are the highest value. This creates a paranoia atmosphere.I mention this all the time, but first time I have ever seen it.

The Master said, "When you meet persons of exceptional character think to stand shoulder to shoulder with them; meeting persons of little character, look inward and examine yourself.

To give comfort to the old, to have the trust of my friends, and to have the young seeking to be near me

Persons are not perceived as superordinated individuals—as agents who stand independent of their actions—but are rather ongoing "events" defined functionally by constitutive roles and relationships as they are performed within the context of their specific families and communities, that is, through the observance of ritual propriety (li

Confucius replied, "Those who are true in my village conduct themselves differently. A father covers for his son, and a son covers for his father. And being true lies in this.

15.15 The Master said, "To demand much from oneself personally, and not overmuch from others, will keep ill will at a distance.

No one ever fell in love gracefully.

Has he ever even said he loved you? He's been telling me for years, she said softly, I just wasn't listening

I didn't want to be all she had. I didn't even want to be her daughter. My blood, poisoned with our family sins, turned hot, scorched my veins. Breathing was getting difficult.

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer." —ANTHONY TROLLOPE, The Bertrams But

what the hell is 'emotional bonding,' anyway? It sounds like something out of Fifty Shades of Grey.

not come to feel his own goodness, worth and lovableness because those significant persons in his life were not present to him with the full attention of their whole being.

Nimeni nu poate s? ias? din propria sa existen??, aÈ™a cum nici ursul nu poate s? ias? din cuÈ™ca lui de la menajerie. Tot ceea ce i se întâmpl? cuiva din partea altcuiva pare straniu pentru noi. Când noi ar?t?m interes preocup?rilor altora, acord?m, de fapt, interes propriilor noastre preocup?ri.

Was that what people learned between the stars? To care for other people very much indeed and to spring upon them only to reveal love and not devouring to their prey?

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the light and he saw in her face and in her figure something he'd not seen before and the name of that thing was sorrow.

There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.