With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie. — Charles Grodin
Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die. — Bo Sanchez
I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in. — Michael W. Smith
Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people. — Bruce D. Perry
The most profound way our past affects our present is through our relationships. — Amir Levine
An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way. — Harriet Lerner
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection. — Sherry Turkle
The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience. — Brian Chesky
Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain. — Fred Rogers
Short Personal Relationships Quotes
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity. — Wayne Dyer
Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love. — Bruce D. Perry
My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them. — Jennifer O'Neill
Feeling connected and having healthy relationships are as imperative as physical health. — Peter Attia
The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity. — Brian Tracy
Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends. — Bill Walsh
However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them. — Francesca Annis
Happy relationships don't just happen. You make them happen. — Bo Sanchez
Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have. — Robert Holden
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Top 10 Personal Relationships Quotes
You can't save a relationship unless both people are equally invested. It takes a joint effort to make it work. One person trying will never be enough. — Tony Gaskins
You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person. — Charles Stanley
A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not. — Henry Cloud
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. — Catherine Ponder
The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself. — Carl Rogers
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson
However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside. — Deepak Chopra
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. — Barbara Johnson
To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world. — Pablo Casals
The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose. — Myles Munroe
Personal Relationships Image Quotes
You've got to be the best person you can be in your life. — Jeff Gordon
How we walk with the broken speaks louder than how we sit with the great.
What Is A Relationship Quotes
The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true. — Valentino Rossi
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end. — Michel Foucault
Every person is a bridge to someone or something else.
I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total. — Nel Noddings
I learned again and again in my life, until you get your own act together, you’re not ready for Big Love. What you’re ready for is one of those codependent relationships where you desperately need a partner. — Bruce H. Lipton
The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever. — Warren Buffett
You need to network before you need the network. This all starts by showing support, or posting-it-forward. This is a priority if you want to sell on LinkedIn. If you’d like to take your business to the next level, go above and beyond and try to connect with your 1st network on the phone or in person. Remember, digital will never replace face-to-face.
What makes a relationship work is things in common, what makes it passionate is that things are very different. — Tony Robbins
A successful hostage negotiator has to get everything he asks for, without giving anything back of substance, and do so in a way that leaves the adversaries feeling as if they have a great relationship. His work is emotional intelligence on steroids. — Chris Voss
There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world. — Oscar Hammerstein II
There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love. — Charles Stanley
What Is Life Partner Quotes
One of the prevalent features of life with an angry or controlling partner is that he frequently tells you what you should think and tries to get you to doubt or devalue your own perceptions and beliefs. — Lundy Bancroft
You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives. — Jose Saramago
I feel very blessed to have a partner in life who supports me, who is enthusiastic about what I want to do, who has been a great father, and who will be a fabulous grandfather. — Hillary Clinton
In real life, when someone's partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is. — Abbas Kiarostami
Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do? — Clark Blaise
Sometimes it takes a partner to say, "What is it you want?" because I think we operate in life and sometimes we don't know. We're all in some kind of maze going after the cheese at the end, and we get it and we go, "What is it that we want?" — Kevin Costner
The need to connect with one another intimately is what makes and keeps us human. The challenge throughout life is to find the courage to reach out to potential partners when our primary relationship ends and to recharge our tried-and-true unions when their sizzle starts to fizzle. — Joyce Brothers
Personal Relationship With God Quotes
My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ. — Billy Graham
God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy. — Pope Francis
All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life. — Charles Stanley
And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God, in communion with him, in love, by choice, the creature before the Creator. — Francis Schaeffer
The main thing to avoid being a casualty is simply this: to have a kind of intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ whereby you're able to hear God speak to your heart, you're sensitive to what He's saying to you to do, and that you're willing to be obedient to Him. — Charles Stanley
My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was telling me something totally different that there was a God. He knit me together in my mother's womb. He made me special. He wanted to have a personal relationship with me. — Joe Gibbs
Personal relationship with God is not all just the ceremony and not the religion of doing something because you were told that's what you have to do; it's relationships, it's like we have relationships with our families, with our friends, with our loved ones. — Lenny Kravitz
It takes faith to find personal significance in your relationship with God rather than how much money you earn, how beautiful you look, how many toys you own, how many trophies you collect, or how much territory you conquer and control. — Charles R. Swindoll
There is the need for an intimate romantic relationship with the father. Abundant joy and an intimate personal receiving of God's love should be our priority because you can never get enough of this, people return again and again to swim in the river or soak in the son. — John Arnott
People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him. — Joyce Meyer
Interpersonal Relationship Quotes
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. — Stephen Covey
Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential. — Joyce Meyer
Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together. — Stephen Covey
Never forget the relationship you have with yourself sets the tone for the relationship you have with everyone else. If you want to have better relationships with other people, work on yourself. — Steven Bartlett
Interpersonal experience shapes the mind as it continues to develop throughout the lifespan... Interactions with the environment, especially relationships with other people, directly shape the development of the brain's structure and function. — Daniel J. Siegel
I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me in touch with him; it enriches my life. It is through hearing people that I have learned all that I know about individuals, about personality, about interpersonal relationships. — Carl Rogers
We say to others only what we need to hear — Byron Katie
Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful. — Max Lucado
Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time. — John Mayer
Human Relationships Quotes
You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us. — Christopher McCandless
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. — Mark Rothko
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship. — A. Philip Randolph
This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in a test tube, or has in any way come into a relationship with it as he has with the other objects of his daily experience. — John B. Watson
There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship. — Franz Kafka
The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love. — Bruce D. Perry
When you let God be God you can let humans be humans. When we place God in His rightful place in our lives, we don't struggle so much when human relationships let us down. — Joshua Harris
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Every time you change, you create new enemies and new allies. Don't be surprised when this happens. It's science. It's human nature. It's inevitable. — Patrick Bet-David
You have to accept that there will always be too much to do; that you can’t avoid tough choices or make the world run at your preferred speed; that no experience, least of all close relationships with other human beings, can ever be guaranteed in advance to turn out painlessly and well. — Oliver Burkeman
Social Relationships Quotes
When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships. — Tim Burton
What would you have to sacrifice to have what you really want? Your social life? Relationships? Credit cards? Free time? Sleep? Now answer this question: What are you willing to sacrifice? If those two lists don’t match up, you don’t want it badly enough. — Tim Grover
Ever since I was little, I've shied away from romance. It's not that I dislike women, but I'm not good with them. — Akira Toriyama
The people and opportunities your business needs are out there, but the only way to uncover them is to take an active role in bringing your social network to life. — Lewis Howes
It can be easy to become 'friends' or 'connected' with someone in a digital world, but it requires thought and strategy to convert social media connections into rewarding business relationships. — Lewis Howes
Social media has ruined a whole generation's expectations of relationships. It has made 'perfect' look normal, so now good, real relationships with all their challenges feel disposable. — Steven Bartlett
I haven’t changed my mind. That’s the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it’s totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there’s no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you. — Graeme Simsion
Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain meaningful romantic relationships for life. — Matthew Hussey
The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more just social, economic,and political relationships and the eradication of other forms of injustices and oppression. — Gene Sharp
In a social environment that is ever crowded and impersonal, it is becoming increasingly important to reconsider the value of close personal relationships before we are driven to ask the forlorn question, 'Whatever happened to love?' — Desmond Morris
Personal Connection Quotes
I'm writing songs that connect to millions of people. And that happens for a reason. I don't really worry too much about people who aren't into it because that's the beauty of music. It's subjective. If every single person in the world loved our music, then that'd be weird. — Matthew Healy
Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. — Sam Altman
The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it. — Frank Iero
The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence. — Gregory Bateson
If that person feels that you respect them, you honor them, you accept them, you will own them as long as you remain open. — Tony Robbins
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. — Steve Jobs
Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success. — Paul J. Meyer
We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur. — Peter Block
Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it’s the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it’s almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can’t take it. And at this moment you’re a part of them. — Thom Yorke
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word. — Eva Hesse
Interpersonal Quotes
In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. We need schools that are developing these skills. — Linda Darling-Hammond
The training is a set of interpersonal interactions that lead to emotional and intellectual experiences that provide a circumstance and an intrument for self awareness, self observation and reflection on the circumstances of the subject trainee, both in his individual life and as a social being. — Humberto Maturana
You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face. — Erik Qualman
Every interpersonal situation has a solution in which everyone wins. — Del Close
The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems. — Stephen Covey
Promoting health without encouraging others to seek wholeness is an exercise in futility. Not until we realize that our bodies are mirrors of our interpersonal, spiritual, professional, sexual, creative, financial, environmental, mental, and emotional health will we truly heal. — Lissa Rankin
Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build. — Ramsey Clark
We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger. — Stephen Covey
Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. — Stephen Covey
I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other. — Terry McMillan
Intimate Relationships Quotes
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world. — T. D. Jakes
Aloneness can lead to loneliness. God's preventative for loneliness is intimacy - meaningful, open, sharing relationships with one another. In Christ we have the capacity for the fulfiling sense of belonging which comes from intimate fellowship with God and with other believers. — Neil T Anderson
Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic. — Euell Gibbons
The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves. — James Hollis
An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes. — Patricia L. Fry
I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man -- in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realization of relationships with others. — Josef Albers
People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship. — Gary Chapman
We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others. — James Hollis
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? — Carl Rogers
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. — George Eliot
If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation. — Madeleine L'Engle
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us. — Ram Dass
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you. — Eckhart Tolle
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony. — Mem Fox
God is loving you into better relationships. He is loving you into being a more loving person. The more we grow in love, the less offended we become. The less offended we become, the more easily and quickly we get healed when people do wound us. — Graham Cooke
Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing. — Brian Weiss
We feel guilt when we no longer want to associate with old friends and colleagues who haven’t changed. — Naval Ravikant
I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone. — Elizabeth Banks
A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization. — Max Weber
I don't dislike Matt Lindland. I didn't blackball him from the UFC, either. Matt Lindland is a good guy and I've never had a personal issue with him. — Dana White
Today I will stop trying to control my relationships. I will participate at a reasonable level and let the other person do the same. I can let go, knowing that the relationship will find its own life-or not-and that I don't have to do all the work, only my share. — Melody Beattie
It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people. — Axl Rose
Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person. — Wayne Dyer
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution. — Deepak Chopra
Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them we learn about forgiveness, patience, and other virtues. — Doreen Virtue
Feel the love of God; then in every person you will see the face of the Father, the light of love which is in all. You will find a magic, living relationship uniting the trees, the sky, the stars, all people, and all living things; and you will feel a oneness with them. This is the code of divine love. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person. — Gloria Steinem
The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency. — John Owen
To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves. — John Gray
The great artists throughout history are the ones able to maintain this childlike enthusiasm and exuberance naturally. Just as an infant is selfish, they’re protective of their art in a way that’s not always cooperative. Their needs as a creator come first. Often at the expense of their personal lives and relationships. — Rick Rubin
Morning routines help prime you for the day ahead. Even 5 minutes of intentional time each morning can result in more energy, increased calm, less anxiety, improved stress tolerance, and better relationships - professional and personal. — Rangan Chatterjee
If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person. then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Prioritize spending time with people who make you better—who lift you up and make you want to grow. — Sahil Bloom
We feel guilt when we no longer want to associate with old friends and colleagues who haven’t changed. The price, and marker, of growth. — Naval Ravikant
Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK. — Emmy Rossum
Sometimes it's hard to open up about your personal life, your relationship because you always want the music to be in the forefront. You want the music to be the biggest carrier of everything that you represent. — Future
To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students. — Ken Robinson
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. — Luigi Pirandello
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