Quotes About Relationships

Where love is the case, the doctor's an ass

She is always Married too soon, who gets a bad Husband, and she is never Married too late, who gets a good one.

We transmit and catch moods from each other in what amounts to a subterranean economy of the psyche in which some encounters are toxic, some nourishing.

many people with IQs of 160 work for people with IQs of 100, if the former have poor intrapersonal intelligence and the latter have a high one.

when we hope to be a You, being treated like an It, as though we do not matter, carries a particularly harsh sting.

But there is virtually no relationship between being an expert and being seen as someone people can trust with their secrets, doubts, and vulnerabilities. A petty office tyrant or micromanager may be high on expertise, but will be so low on trust that it will undermine their ability to manage, and effectively exclude them from informal networks.

It's the most important relationships in your life, the people you see day in and day out, that seem to be crucial for your health. And the more significant the relationship is in your life, the more it matters for your health."43

One friend can make the difference - even when all others turn their backs (and even when that friendship is not all that solid).

practical skills that are based on its five elements: self-awareness, motivation, self-regulation, empathy, and adeptness in relationships.

Rapport demands joint attention—mutual focus. Our need to make an effort to have such human moments has never been greater, given the ocean of distractions we all navigate daily.

Los niños de hoy en día crecen en una nueva realidad, una realidad en la que están muy desconectados de sus semejantes y mucho más conectados que nunca, por el contrario, con las máquinas, una situación que, por razones muy diversas, resulta inquietante.

porque constituye el vínculo entre los sentimientos, el carácter y los impulsos morales.

We catch feelings from one another as though they were some kind of social virus.

empathy, perspective taking, rapport, and cooperation are among the competencies the school is looking for in those who apply.

emotional intelligence counts more than IQ or expertise

The ability of the powerful to dismiss inconvenient people (and inconvenient truths) by paying no attention has become the focus of social psychologists, who are finding relationships between power and the people we pay most and least attention to.4

They concluded that the brain's default activity—what happens automatically when nothing much else goes on—seems to be mulling over our relationships.18

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

Feelings of inclusion depend not so much on having frequent social contacts or numerous relationships as on how accepted we feel, even in just a few key relationships.

You can't separate the cause of an emotion from the world of relationships—our social interactions are what drive our emotions.

The biological influence passing from person to person suggests a new dimension of a life well lived: conducting ourselves in ways that are beneficial even at this subtle level for those with whom we connect.

la gente que prospera en la vida (que tiene relaciones positivas y un trabajo gratificante, que considera que su existencia tiene sentido) experimenta al menos tres acontecimientos emocionales positivos por cada uno negativo.

First, emotional intelligence

One study of children's friendships found that three-year-olds say about half their friends are of the opposite sex; for five-year-olds it's about 20 percent, and by age seven almost no boys or girls say they have a best friend of the opposite sex.3