Quotes About Relationships

And all I had been doing was talking when I should have been listening. I never heard her. "From that time on I let her do all the talking she wanted. She tells me what is on her mind, and our relationship has improved immeasurably. She is again a cooperative person.

Adler's statement is so rich with meaning that I am going to repeat it in italics: It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

In the heyday of his activity, John D. Rockefeller said that 'the ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee.' 'And I will pay more for that ability,' said John D., 'than for any other under the sun.

Cuando tratamos con personas, recordemos que no estamos tratando con criaturas lógicas. Estamos tratando con seres de emoción, seres humanos erizados de prejuicios, y motivados por el orgullo y la vanidad.

popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.

Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart. MRS. BROWNING.

I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen.

People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common.

When these long telephone silences come, it is a sure sign that love is over.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

He was right. And he was an insensitive shit.

Who gets the change? the clerk asked. You or...your fella? Oh, he's not my boyfriend, I said. He's my mother.

If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

I love you was just three meaningless words without the actions that went with them

She paused, cleared her throat twice, and I suddenly realized she was crying. If you want to love someone, then go right ahead. I know what love feel like; you didn't invent love. But the Lord Almighty doesn't give out promises just because you love someone. Love only gets you so far.

there was no shorthand for I'm sorry. You were obliged to speak those two words.

As anxious and limited as that love might have been, it had been love nonetheless.

People are not like Tupperware, with their lids on securely.

Grandma turned her TV to thunderous volume and told me I mumbled. She was still an "Edge of Night" fan. Sometimes I'd grab a Coke from the refrigerator and slump down on the couch with her, slurping intentionally from the bottle. "I hope you don't sit like that in school," she said. "It's unladylike.

I'll give you what I learned from all this," he said. "Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

Forgiveness is the rich loam from which love can grow.

Love was always the thing that did that-smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try new things but still makes you feel safe.