Quotes About Relationships

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

Hard decisions, sacrifices doesn't keep you warm at night, life's too damn short, too damn long to continue without someone at your side

Men who swear undying love sometimes have the worst intentions in the world.

The heart of the best woman is pitiless toward the sorrows of a rival.

During Life, we cultivate relationships by spending days with others. During eternity, we cultivate relationships by spending lifetimes with others.

Love ya" is the coward's way of saying "I love you.

You see, sister, little Miss Scarlett has no idea who she is. Her chraming tricks attract men who are unworthy of her. "Rhett's voice dropped to a whisper. "Hindoos believe we have had lives before this. Is it true? He raised a mocking eyebrow. Perhaps Scarlett and I were star-crossed lovers; perhaps we died in each other's arms...

Sometimes those who are easiest to love are hardest to respect. - Ashley Wilkes

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself...

Rather, your smartness and your effectiveness depend on how well you capitalize on your strongest connections.

If nature didn't whittle down your network to a smaller number of strongly forged connections, you would never become an adult. You would remain a permanent child, frozen in sensory overload.

Love makes us infamous when love is coldly true

Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

Without such trust and safety, social relationships tend to become strategic rather than cooperative, increasingly full of skepticism and even anxiety and fear about others' intentions. (p. 27)

Never crush a man out, thereby making him and his friends permanent enemies of your organization.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

You think that because you understand "one" that you must therefore understand "two" because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand "and.

a system must consist of three kinds of things: elements, interconnections, and a function or purpose.

This ancient Sufi story was told to teach a simple lesson but one that we often ignore: The behavior of a system cannot be known just by knowing the elements of which the system is made.

If information-based relationships are hard to see, functions or purposes are even harder. A system's function or purpose is not necessarily spoken, written, or expressed explicitly, except through the operation of the system. The best way to deduce the system's purpose is to watch for a while to see how the system behaves.