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Quotes About Relationships

I'll never fall in love, because I could never trust that I wouldn't be abandoned.
~ Don Lee
If you tell someone you love him, and that person says 'Well, I don't love you, is that a reason for you to suffer? Just because someone rejects you doesn't mean you have to reject yourself. If one person doesn't love you, someone else will love you. There is always someone else. And it's better to be with someone who wants to be with you than to be with someone who has to be with you.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
Mi možemo govoriti o ljubavi i o njoj napisati tisu?u knjiga, ali ljubav ?e biti sasvim druk?ija za svakoga od nas, jer je moramo iskusiti. U ljubavi nije rije? o na?elima, nego o djelima. Ljubav na djelu može stvarati samo sre?u. Strah na djelu može stvarati samo patnju.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
Someone can intentionally send emotional poison, and if you don't take it personally, you will not eat it. When you don't take the emotional poison, it becomes even worse to the sender, but not in you.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
How many times have you hooked other people's attention, and spread poison about your loved one in order to make your opinion right? Your opinion is nothing but your point of view. It is not necessarily true.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing other people do is because of you.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.
~ Unknown
Companies such as Unilever or Prudential are coming to us and saying, 'We're very interested in building better data relationships. Can we leverage your platform? We're very interested in reducing our data liability.' They're seeing that data is increasingly a toxic asset inside of corporations.
~ Don Tapscott
And Harold came into Perpetua's apartment. He said, 'I just want to know one thing. Are you happy?' 'Sure,' Perpetua said. (Donald Barthelme, Perpetua)
~ Donald Barthelme
The daughters are tired of kissing each other, although some are not.
~ Donald Barthelme
Chipmunks jump, and greensnakes slither. Rather burst than not be with her. Bluebirds fight, but bears are stronger. We've got fifty years or longer. Hoptoads hop, but hogs are fatter. Nothing else but Us can matter.
~ Donald Hall
For investors, in addition to the standard adage of location, location, location, returns depend on having good timing, deep pockets, and sound financing relationships.
~ Donald J. Trump
Good brokers are not all about making money. And even if they are, the best way for one to make money is to create an atmosphere of trust and reliability.
~ Donald J. Trump
Sometimes in life you have to let people breathe before it all comes back to bite you!
~ Donald J. Trump
Real estate is a relationship business.
~ Donald J. Trump
Just as men often marry brunettes after years of dating only blondes, and end up strolling on Madison Avenue with the small white puppy they swore they would never have, buyers are liars.
~ Donald J. Trump
No matter how tight your schedule or your clients' time, do your best to have face-to-face meetings. It is much easier to kill a "faceless deal." And above all, act honorably. That is what people remember.
~ Donald J. Trump
Let's talk about me!" Generally speaking, that's not a great idea for handling yourself in social situations. A better plan is to listen and ask questions. Being interested in others is the way to make friends and influence people. In bonding readers to characters on the page, however, the reverse is true. We open our hearts to those whose hearts are first open to us. For
~ Donald Maass
When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.
~ Donald Miller
But love doesn't control, and I suppose that's why it's the ultimate risk. In the end, we have to hope the person we're giving our heart to won't break it, and be willing to forgive them when they do, even as they will forgive us. Real love stories don't have dictators, they have participants. Love is an ever-changing, complicated, choose-your-own adventure narrative that offers the world but guarantees nothing.
~ Donald Miller
I don't know if there's a healthier way for two people to stay in love than to stop using each other to resolve their unfulfilled longings and, instead, start holding each other closely as they experience them.
~ Donald Miller
We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.
~ Donald Miller
I DON'T KNOW WHY IT IS, EXACTLY, BUT THE PEOPLE with the healthiest self-esteem are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people. It's a beautiful moment when somebody wakes up to this reality, when they realize God created them so other people could enjoy them, not just endure them.
~ Donald Miller