Quotes About Relationships

Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people

Love is a power which produces love.

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love—or to be loved by—is difficult.

Die meisten Menschen sehen das Problem der Liebe in erster Linie als das Problem, selbst geliebt zu werden, statt zu lieben und lieben zu können.

La peggiore di tutte le passioni umane, l'impulso a servirsi di un proprio simile per fini egoistici, in nome della propria superiorità, ben poco si differenzia da una forma raffinata di cannibalismo.

Meister Eckhart on this topic: "If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself, but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man. Thus he is a great and righteous person who, loving himself, loves all others equally."[14]

It is desirable to avoid trivial and evil company altogether—unless one can assert oneself fully, and thus make the other doubt his own position.

looking for the next thing to do or the newest gadget to use is only a means of protecting oneself from being close to oneself or to another person.

The assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an object , not the problem of a faculty . People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by- is difficult.

Naces solo y mueres solo, y en el paréntesis la soledad es tan grande que necesitas compartir la vida para olvidarlo.

One can hardly overestimate people's need to talk about themselves and to be listened to.

The sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily..

If you love without calling forth love, that is, if your love as such does not produce love, if by means of an expression of life as a loving person you do not make of yourself a loved person, then your love is impotent, a misfortune.

Man schließt zu zweit einen Bund gegen die Welt und hält dann diesen égoisme à deux irrtümlich für Liebe und Vertrautheit.

Die Liebe ist das Kind der Freiheit, niemals der Beherrschung

realists who have a special word for each type of automobile, but only the one word "love" to express the most varied kinds of affective experience.

l'amour est l'enfant de la liberté" as an old French song says; love is the child of freedom

Not that people think that love is not important. They are starved for it; they watch endless numbers of films about happy and unhappy love stories, they listen to hundreds of trashy songs about love—yet hardly anyone thinks that there is anything that needs to be learned about love. This

Hayat?m?za giren herkes deÄŸerlidir ama herkes özel deÄŸildir. Sayg? hepsine, sevgi lay?k olana verilir.

Ä°nsan seviyorsa iki ÅŸeyi asla yapmaz. Aldatmaz ve aÄŸlatmaz. Çünkü aldatmak insan onuruna; aÄŸlatmak ise insan yüreÄŸine yap?lm?? en çirkin sald?r?d?r.

Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me. If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. It is clear that respect is possible only if I have achieved independence; if I can stand and walk without needing crutches, without

I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'