918 private quotes tagged relationship

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha

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“Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.” — Tom Hanks

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“And on top of that, when we work together we have a wonderful working relationship we push each other we challenge each other we laugh 80% of the time that we are together we're very fortunate.” — Alex Lifeson

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“When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.” — Tadao Ando

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“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” — Epicurus

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“If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.” — Steve Jobs

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“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.” — Erich Fromm

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“Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.” — Mason Cooley

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“Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.” — H. L. Mencken

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“You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.” — Taylor Swift

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“The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.” — Franz Kafka

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“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” — Martin Luther

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“There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.” — William F. Buckley, Jr.

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“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

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“Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.” — Dave Barry

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“Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.” — Alan Watts

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“Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.” — Warren Farrell

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“In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.” — John Oates

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“If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.” — Gary Allan

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“I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.” — Kris Allen

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“Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple.” — Cheryl Ladd

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“I feel fortunate I have this amazing relationship with so many people in America, because I was in their homes at a very private time of day. They probably might have still had their robe on and their slippers and haven't made the beds.” — Joan Lunden

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