Quotes About Relationship

So it is fairly widely recognised that the relationship between human beings and things is no longer one of distance and mastery such as that which obtained between the sovereign mind and the piece of wax in Descartes' famous description. Rather, the relationship is less clear-cut: vertiginous proximity prevents us both from apprehending ourselves as a pure intellect separate from things and from defining things as pure objects lacking in all human attributes.

There is already a kind of presence of the other in me.

The relation of the human & animality is not a hierarchical relation, but lateral, an overcoming that does not abolish kinship

There is an adherence, a strange kinship between the human and the animal...of the animal as variant of humanity and of humanity as variant of animality.

It is a paradox to not want to infringe upon the will of the loved being. To love is to accept undergoing the other's influence and also to exercise influence on the other.

All theory is at the same time a practice...The link between theory and practice is not one of linear dependency. It is a circular relationship where envelopment is reciprocal.

We are the parents of a Nature of which we are also the children

The inside is seen in the outside--grasps it better than itself. Relation to the outside that is not 'representation' but ecstasy...And reciprocally, the visible is the transactions, the chemistry, the music, and interrelationship and the 'operation of interests' [Claudel] of Anima.

The child and adult reflect each other like two mirrors endlessly placed face to face. The child that we believe exists is the reflection we desire. We are all indissolubly tied to the fact that the other is facing us the way we are facing him.

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

My clothes can become appendages of my body.

The social is at the interior of the individual and the individual is at the interior of the social, since the past individual is himself interpsychologic from birth...There is no competition between psychology and interpsychology...All is social and all is individual.

I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged.

I could no more marry a man about whom I could not make a fool of myself than I could marry one who made a fool of himself about me. Else had I long ceased to be a spinster.

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

Cause and effect are never divided between two people.

So, we eat again. Well, perhaps the relationship wouldn't go anywhere, but I would certainly put on a few pounds.

I think the most important foundation about any relationship is just being honest. You've got to. My wife and I are honest to a fault with each other, and we're best friends on top of it, so we're very fortunate.

For a girl, the wedding is when you're married. For a guy, it's when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.

Both made the completion of the chain possible by making themselves and their wants known to a lot of people.

Regardless of how the PR business may have developed over the years, we always used to be a transmission, a sort of bridge, between our clients and their clients.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.