Quotes About Relationships

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.

Culture does not exist autonomously; it is set always in the context of social relationships.

The world is what the individual makes it. A world of individuals is the intersubjective, collective mind field of all those individuals. Standing on the ground of freedom, we can see things afresh, enter relationships renewed and with a new purpose of sharing freedom and happiness. We can become poets and seers of reality. We can become great adepts, true individuals, agents of compassion. To live in a world is to be constantly creating that world. (p. 215)

But there's one problem that you have to solve if you're to go on profiting from books, and books won't help you much to solve it [,,,] The problem of finding someone, even one single person, you can endure life with. To me it's acute.

Margaret noticed that he was one of the many men who classify women into those you talk to and those with whom words merely impede the way.

Ursula excelled me without difficulty in swimming, sailing, and fell-walking alike. Marriage had sheered off the first edge of romance from our actual caresses, but there was a sweet affection between us, as between a devoted brother and a devoted sister, though I suppose that is not an approved way of putting it. I always wanted a sister, and never more than at this present moment.

Confidences pre-announced are seldom worth while.

The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.

Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after -- that's bullshit. Three weeks later he's beating her up and she's suing for divorce and he's got cancer.

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

No matter how carefully we defend ourselves, all it takes is one footprint of another real person to recall us to the endlessly interesting hazards of living relationships.

What accounts for TIT FOR TAT's robust success is its combination of being nice, retaliatory, forgiving, and clear. Its

Lesson One was: "Be nice and forgiving." Lesson Two was more exploitative: "If others are going to be nice and forgiving, it pays to try to take advantage of them.

people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.79

The rule says that we should try to repay, in kind, what another person has provided us.

The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others.

The rule says that favors are to be met with favors; it does not require that tricks be met with favors. A

Our ability to create change in others is often and importantly grounded in shared personal relationships, which create a pre-suasive context for assent. It's a poor trade-off, then, for social influence when we allow present-day forces of separation—distancing societal changes, insulating modern technologies—to take a shared sense of human connection out of our exchanges. The relation gets removed, leaving just the ships, passing at sea.87 UNITY

subjects became fonder of the people and things they experienced while they were eating.

The time to react protectively is when we feel ourselves liking the practitioner more than we should under the circumstances.

deberíamos estarlo. La regla de la reciprocidad rige muchas situaciones de naturaleza puramente interpersonal que no implican un intercambio de dinero ni comercial. Un ejemplo ilustrativo de esto es

quienes hacen trampas por ti también te las harán a ti.

Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?" "No. They only say that I'm good in the sack." "They are accurate but limited," I said. "And if you give me their names I'll kill them.