Quotes About Interpersonal

Within-group conflict is always personal and emotional - even if it begins with impersonal issues.

For Jane Austen, morality is not only a matter of personal responsibility between an individual and his conscience or his Maker; it is more social than that, it is a matter of how the conduct impinges on the lives of other people.

You do not respond to your critic's statements of wrongdoing with denial, defensiveness, or countermanipulation with criticisms of your own. Instead, you break the manipulative cycle by actively prompting further criticism about yourself or by prompting more information about statements of "wrongdoing" from the critical person in an unemotional, low-key manner.

FOGGING is a very effective skill for desensitizing you to criticism and actually reducing the frequency of criticism from others. It rapidly sets up a psychological distance, boundary lines between you and the person you FOG.

Buddhists do not deny that there are possibilities for joy—nor do they dismiss the potential benefits of interpersonal relationships, family, a good job, or the pursuit of positive goals—but they hold that all such worldly entanglements are ultimately unsatisfactory

If I wanted to predict your happiness, and I could know only one thing about you, I wouldn't want to know your gender, religion, health, or income. I'd want to know about your social network—about your friends and family, and the strength of your bonds with them.

I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Communication is the oil that lubricates the frictions of life.

She had guessed that Françoise was not over-fond of her son-in-law, and that he spoiled the pleasure she found in visiting her daughter, as the two could not talk so freely when he was there. And so one day, when Françoise was going to their house, some miles from Combray, Mamma said to her, with a smile: "Tell me, Françoise, if Julien has had to go away, and you have Marguerite to yourself all day, you will be very sorry,

Conversation lets you be an artist every time you open your mouth--or shut it. As Robert Louis Stevenson said, "The most important art is to omit"; the key to being a master conversationalist is to listen at least as much as you talk. Just as the other arts include pauses in a dramatic play, white margins around printed text, and space between a singer's phrases, conversation is about silences as well as about words.

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.

The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society.

He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

A communications expert once made this distinction: "A know-it-all who doesn't know what he is talking about is a jerk. A know-it-all who does know what he is talking about is just an ass.

When you use the Empathy Jolt, avoid the mistake of interjecting your own opinions during the process—even if they're positive ones ("I certainly agree about what you're saying about Simon's talents"). Your goal is to get two people to mirror each other, and they can't do that if you're standing between them. So facilitate, but don't butt in.

blushing propensity should correlate with measures of people's interpersonal concerns.

Humor is more than entertainment or joke telling—it's a powerful social lubricant that eases and enriches communication, interpersonal relations, and education. Humor is a universal speech opener because it immediately earns the speaker respectful attention. It's psychologically impossible to hate someone with whom you've laughed. When we laugh, we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh. —Robert Orben

Mucho antes de llegar a la adultez aprendí a comunicarme de una forma impersonal que no requería revelar lo que estaba sucediendo dentro de mí.

But for some reason, many people enjoy living in the past, especially if going back there lets them blame someone else for anything that's gone wrong in their lives. That's when clinging to the past becomes an interpersonal problem. We use the past as a weapon against others.

Whoever says You does not have something; he has nothing. But he stands in relation.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.