Quotes About Relationships

One of the sad features of most close relationships is the decay of intimacy as a function of time, turmoil, and all the little misunderstandings that inevitably occur between people, leading them, year in and year out, toward the same tired conclusions: conversation falters; friendships fail.

Human beings in stressful relationships will frequently behave in ways that contradict or even reverse their own most certain expectations.

How can you be alienated without first having been connected?

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

Good fences make good neighbors. - John Dortmunder

Han shook his head. Long ago he had told himself that females - mammalian, reptilian, or some biological class yet to be discovered - were beyond his meager powers of comprehension. Better leave them to mystery, he'd often advised himself.

Decentralized control is based on trust. This trust must be present both hierarchically and laterally. Subordinates must trust their superiors, and superiors must trust their subordinates.

The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.

When I was three years old and in my mother's arms, she looked down at me and said, "Son, the way I'm taking care of you now, when you get old, always have a woman to take care of you like this." Dig this! All I'm goin' do is rest and dress, buy gasoline and lean. I'm goin' buy diamond rings and have the best of everything. I'm goin' pimp whores.

Your presence in this house is almost as enormous and painful as your absence.

In his journals Emerson wrote, "To every reproach I know but one answer, namely, to go again to my work. 'But you neglect your relations.' Too true, then I will work the harder. 'But you have no genius.' Yes, then I will work the harder. 'But you have detached yourself from people: you must regain some positive relation.' Yes, I will work the harder.

a system of postulates, mathematical relationships, data, and inferences that form a basis for describing a scientific process or sequence of events. These models need to be tested against new observations to see how well they hold up. That's a big part of the scientific method.

Me había engañado pensando en que Shigeko era diferente, pero no. También ella era la vaca que da un latigazo fulminante e inesperado con la cola para matar a un tábano. Entonces supe que, a partir de ese momento, debería ser tímido incluso con aquella niña.

If you withhold love as a form of punishment, who is being punished?

When you show others love, you are shown love. When you give love, you receive love.

Don't change your morality for the people around you, change the people around you with your morality.

If you give, expecting something in return, it's not really giving at all. If you love, expecting something in return, it's not really loving at all.

I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.

Best things in life aren't things.

It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

The key to all of life is understanding how to add value to others.