Quotes About Relationships

Muéstrate abierto a la influencia de los demás, y caerán más fácilmente bajo tu hechizo.

Las mujeres [narcisistas] son las que más fascinan a los hombres.

All working situations require a kind of distance between people. You are trying to work, not make friends; friendliness (real or false) only obscures that fact. The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.

También debes mantener a la gente a prudente distancia, para evitar que te comprenda.

La autoestima es decisiva en la seducción. Una autoestima baja repele, la seguridad y autosuficiencia atraen. Cuanto menos parezcas necesitar de los demás, es más probable que se sientan atraídos hacia ti. Comprende la importancia de esto en todas las relaciones y descubrirás que tu necesidad es más fácil de suprimir.

Never associate with those who share your defects—they will reinforce everything that holds you back.

This is a lesson that the stars in the sky teach us—they may be related to the sun, and just as brilliant, but they never appear in her company. (Baltasar Gracián, 1601-1658)

the problem about working with friends is that it confuses the boundaries and distances that working requires.

Infectors can be recognized by the misfortune they draw on themselves, their turbulent past, their long line of broken relationships, their unstable careers, and the very force of their character, which sweeps you up and makes you lose your reason.

The Laws of Human Nature is designed to immerse you in all aspects of human behavior and illuminate its root causes. If you let it guide you, it will radically alter how you perceive people and your entire approach to dealing with them. It will also radically change how you see yourself.

On the other hand, there is the opposing tendency of the brain to want to make connections between everything. This generally occurs among individuals who pursue knowledge far enough that these associations come to

Lo que se hace por amor se hace siempre más allá del bien y del mal. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Más allá del bien y del mal

While a friend expects more and more favors, and seethes with jealousy, these former enemies expected nothing and got everything.

Since honesty rarely strengthens friendship, you may never know how a friend truly feels. Friends will say that they love your poetry, adore your music, envy your taste in clothes—maybe they mean it, often they do not.

If you never expect gratitude from a friend, you will be pleasantly surprised when they do prove grateful.

Thus it is plain that faults that are evident to the senses, gross and corporal, or otherwise notorious to the world, we know by our enemies sooner than by our friends and familiars

You often do not know your friends as well as you imagine. Friends often agree on things in order to avoid an argument. They cover up their unpleasant qualities so as to not offend each other. They laugh extra hard at each other's jokes. Since honesty rarely strengthens friendship, you may never know how a friend truly feels. Friends will say that they love your poetry, adore your music, envy your taste of clothes-- maybe they mean it, often they do not.

The wise man profits more from his enemies, than a fool from his friends. (Baltasar Gracián, 1601-1658)

Since power is a human creation, it is inevitably increased by contact with other people.

Understand: once people know what pleases you and what angers you, they turn into trained poodles, working to charm you with apparent good behavior.

The ability to measure people and to know who you're dealing with is the most important skill of all in gathering and conserving power. Without it you are blind: Not only will you offend the wrong people, you will choose the wrong types to work on, and will think you are flattering people when you are actually insulting them.

Hace falta más talento para amar que para mandar ejércitos. NINON DE L'ENCLOS

El problema es que, por lo general, estamos demasiado absortos en nosotros mismos: pensamos más en lo que queremos de otras personas que en lo que ellas podrían querer de nosotros.

Everything in nature has a structure, a way that the parts relate to one another, which is generally fluid and not so easy to conceptualize.