Quotes About Relationships

Better Me + Better You = Better Us

She was also heard to tell him on several occasions, "I wish you were dead." These abuses, quite obviously, had an impact on the young boy. At age four

Hey, Mags. Um - how are you holding up? I don't think I'm going to love you anymore. What's the point? You are just going to die like everyone else...

Weißt du, diese ganzen Small-talk Fragen, sie funktionieren nicht mehr. Hast du Kinder? Wo leben deine Eltern? Was macht dein Mann? Wie viele Brüder und Schwestern hast du? Sport, Wetter, Arbeit... Die ganze Palette. Es funktioniert einfach nicht mehr. Aber die Macht der Gewohnheit, nicht wahr? (Lori)

I was married to Erma for almost forty years, you can't be jealous of my memories

Listening is more important than talking. If that were not true, God would not have given us two ears and only one mouth.

Kohut noticed that grandiosity, rather than improving your sex life, either makes you impotent or makes you so promiscuous that you cannot sustain relationships and you put yourself in danger of getting AIDS and dying. In other words, grandiosity tends to destroy you if you don't face up it and learn how to regulate it.

Two people were not one

As she watched him, Mrs. Gates was once again struck by the painful realization that there were Ã¢â'¬Â¦ things Ã¢â'¬Â¦ about her husband she would never understand. Gaps in his life she could never fill, leaps in his thinking she could not comprehend.

I should of known he was married. I mean, nobody that young is THAT bald unless he's got a wife at home.

Core to leadership is the ability to relate to people—to empathize, understand, inspire, and motivate.

Blair had never been able to develop strong relationships at the White House, and I think the final straw was his single-handed attempt to negotiate an agreement with the French intelligence services limiting activities in each other's country. The idea had zero support anywhere in the administration and, frankly, was considered kind of bizarre.

Harry Truman's line that if you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.)

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.

To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding.

I think that if we are going to reform the world, and make it a better place to live in, the way to do it is not with talk about relationships of the political nature… I think that kind of approach starts it at the end and presumes the end is the beginning. Programs of a political nature are important and products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right.

To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as "the system" is to speak correctly, since these organizations are founded upon the same structural conceptual relationships as a motorcycle.

Something roughly akin to love is needed for proper biological development, and its absence is among the most aching, distorting stressors that we can suffer.

there are studies showing that one oxytocin receptor gene variant is associated with extreme aggression in kids, as well as a callous, unemotional style that foreshadows adult psychopathy.54 Moreover, another variant is associated with social disconnection in kids and unstable adult relationships. But unfortunately these findings are uninterpretable because no one knows if these variants produce more, less, or the usual amount of oxytocin signaling.

The opposite of love is not hate; its opposite is indifference." The biologies of strong love and strong hate are similar in many ways, as we'll see.

The biologies of strong love and strong hate are similar in many ways, as we'll see.

There is often an inverse relationship between levels of intragroup and intergroup aggression. In other words, groups with highly hostile interactions with neighbors tend to have minimal internal conflict. Or, to spin this another way, groups with high levels of internal conflict are too distracted to focus hostility on the Others.

Women prefer the smell of moderately related over unrelated men. And in a study of 160 years of data concerning every couple in Iceland (which is a mecca for human geneticists, given its genetic and socioeconomic homogeneity), the highest reproductive success arose from third- and fourth-cousin marriages.

What the data show: the fewer social relationships a person has, the shorter his or her life expectancy, and the worse the impact of various infectious diseases. Relationships that are medically protective can take the form of marriage, contact with friends and extended family, church membership, or other group affiliations.