Quotes About Relationships

If you really want to improve your outer world, whether this means your health, your relationships or your finances, you must first improve your inner world. The most effective way to do this is through the practice of continuous self-improvement. Self-mastery is the DNA of life mastery.

like most human beings, I do business with people who treat me well.

Uop?e ne sumnjam da smo se susreli s odre?enim razlogom. Život to tako uredi. Svi koji su ušli u tvoj život, došli su upravo u trenutku kada ti je njihova pouka bila najpotrebnija.

La vida es demasiado valiosa como para malgastarla con gente que no te entiende. Con gente que no está en la misma onda. Con gente que tiene unos valores distintos y un listón más bajo que el tuyo. Y con una disposición mental, emocional, física y espiritual distinta.

Personal relationships start unraveling, business partnerships begin to fall apart and your credibility decreases as you become known as "a loose cannon." Effective

do small things well each day. Develop your intellectual base a little bit more. Be more loving. Be more innovative. Take more risks. Develop deeper relationships.

Measure the success of your days by the lives touched vs the hours passed.

Life's way too valuable to hang with people who don't get you. Who you just don't vibe with. Who have different values and lower standards than you do. Who have different Mindsets, Heartsets, Healthsets and Soulsets. It's a little miracle how powerfully and profoundly our influences and environments shape our productivity as well as our impact.

The purpose of life is to love

Y en lo que respecta a las relaciones, solo me rodeo de seres humanos que estimulen mi alegría, que me den paz y me animen a ser un hombre mejor. La vida es demasiado valiosa como para malgastarla con gente que no te entiende.

Your thoughts are shaped by the people you associate with, by the books you read, by the words you speak and by your daily physical surroundings.

Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we give.

For your own maximum productivity, top performance, boundless joyfulness and peace of mind, it's really important to avoid 'bad people', those who are filled with wounds from the past that they don't have the self-awareness not to project onto you their own misery.

Under the best of circumstances, middle school is a sixth-circle-of-hell situation, sandwiched somewhere between flaming tombs and flesh-eating harpies. It's the kind of situation that doesn't need gasoline on the fire, especially when said gasoline comes in the form of your older brother murdering the older sister of the third-most popular girl in school.

See them in their golden hour, a flood of girls high on the ecstasy of the final bell, tumbling onto the city bus, all gawky limbs and Wonderbra cleavage, chewed nails picking at eruptive zits, lips nibbling and eyes scrunching in a doomed attempt not to cry. Girls with plaid skirts tugged unfathomably high above the knee, girls seizing the motion of the bus to throw themselves bodily into their objects of affection.

Origin stories are irrelevant. Nothing matters less than how you were born. What matters is how you die, and how you live. We live for each other, so anything that got us to that point must have been right.

I knew we were better together than we were alone, and better still than everyone else, and that was enough.

Four generations of women--I'm a woman, Mary said to herself--heading off on a journey in a car. One of the dead, one of them dying, one of the driving, one of them just staring out.

It would be okay to laugh one minute, then someone would be bent over, holding his arm where Tom Jones had thumped him. I'd watch tears drop on the wooden floor and I'd love Tom Jones because they weren't my tears.

That does it. It can't be true love. Mr. Willow has eyes like a sick kitten. You might love a sick kitten but you don't marry it, you keep it as a pet.

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.

Marriage...it's not a word, it's a sentence.

Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr. [...] Almost all cats make us feel good about ourselves because they let us know they feel good about us, about themselves, and about our relationship with them. A purring cat is a form of high praise, like a gold star on a test paper. It is a reinforcement of soemthing we would all like to believe about ourselves -- that we are nice.