Quotes About Interpersonal

The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.

I don't care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces 'intelligence.

Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.

One of these norms says that Christians must not talk negatively to other people about those who are not in the group. Instead, they are instructed to speak privately about their differences to these individuals themselves. Matthew 18:15-17 is quite clear on the point.33

In all such interpersonal relations, principles previously set forth in other sections of this book are applicable. The teacher must be careful to stress the urgency for reconciliation, the need for forgiveness and help, the importance of first removing the log from one's own eye, and the necessity for attacking problems rather than people.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.

I want children who can make eye contact. I want children who know how to resolve conflicts with their peers. I want children who understand the dynamics of interpersonal relationships that are physical and tactile. I do not want children that only know how to interface with the world through a screen.

Being polite, being respectful, having manners, and being a socialite - they're key life skills that people take for granted. Being able to communicate with all people on all levels is what's got me so far.

Communication is something we all take for granted.

and relationships in the here and now.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

He do that with me, too," Susan said. "It drives me fucking crazy." "Gee," I said, "I was liking it better when we were talking about Hawk's problems." Susan smiled.

A gift, to be a gift, has to be accepted. Otherwise it lies like a burden between people.

You are the devil to talk to, Rachel, he said curtly. Will you shut up and listen?

I think that bad drama in a relationship has nothing to do with the individuals, it just really has to do with the dynamic that those individuals create.

An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.

To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Most people can neither intimately know, nor gossip effectively about, more than 150 human beings.

Não tenha receio de posicionar-se de acordo com seus sentimentos. Há a hora de dizer sim e a hora de dizer não. Faça isso com naturalidade e será surpreendido com a reação positiva das pessoas. É que suas energias estarão mais equilibradas e favorecerão o entendimento.

This has been one of my biggest surprises in writing this book: the distinction beetween introverts and extraverts did not come up in any of my previous books about relationships, but it emerged early on a significant factor in this one.

The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.