The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
It's not just the number of friends you have, and it's not whether or not you're in a committed relationship. It's the quality of your close relationships that matters.
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.
We live in a generation of not being in love and not being together_x000D_ But we sure make it feel like we're together._x000D_ Cause we're scared to see each other with somebody else
Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Being a woman, we talk about equal pay all the time. We're not talking about if you're black or if you are Latina. I would like to get back to that and improving the relationship between the police community and the community of color. I don't know exactly all the right things to say, but I want to engage in that conversation.
There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.
Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.
One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.
When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
The most important relationship you have in life is the one you have with yourself. And then after that, I'd say once you have that, it may be hard work, but you can actually design your life.
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.
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