RELATIONSHIP QUOTES III
quotations about relationships
Relationships don't always make sense. Especially from the outside.
SARAH DESSEN
Along for the Ride
We often err by contemplating an individual solely in his relation and behaviour to us, and generalizing from that with more rapidity than wisdom. We might as well argue that the moon has no rotation about her axis, because the same hemisphere is always presented to our view.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
You don't want to have to be the man and the woman in the relationship. I always say you want a man who can fix the toilet.
PAMELA ANDERSON
attributed, Celebrity Hub
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
ELIZABETH JANEWAY
Ms., November 1981
Now you play the loving woman;
I'll play the faithful man.
But just don't look too close into the palm of my hand.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Brilliant Disguise", Tunnel of Love
We know what our relationship is at present: a contention, a struggle, a pain; or mere habit. If we can understand relationship with one, fully, completely, then perhaps there is a possibility of understanding of relationship with the many, that is, with the society. If I do not understand my relationship with one, I certainly shall not understand my relationship with the whole, with society, with the many.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
J. Krishnamurti Second Talk in Ojai, July 17, 1949
As two pieces of wood floating on the ocean come together at one time and are again separated, even such is the union of living creatures in this world.
VYASA
The Mahabharata
The best relationships are between decent, caring, and committed men and women who share power comfortably and do not expect stereotypical behavior from themselves or from their partners.
KAREN JOHNSON
Trusting Ourselves: The Complete Guide to Emotional Well-being for Women
I do not know if you have not noticed it for yourself that relationship is very painful. And as long as it's not a revealing process in which you are discovering yourself, then relationship is used as a means of escape from yourself. And I think it is important to understand this, because ... the question of self-knowledge lies in the unfoldment of relationship--whether relationship to things, to people, and to ideas.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
J. Krishnamurti Second Talk in Ojai, July 17, 1949
We can find reasons to dislike anyone. But it's what you focus on and appreciate in a person that cultivates a positive relationship.
DAVID J. LIEBERMAN
Make Peace With Anyone
Human communication is guided and governed by socially established rules. The argument here is simply that such interpersonal relationships as those existing between friends, lovers, and mates are characteristic of human beings. Such interpersonal relationships are initiated, maintained, and terminated in and through human communication. Communication in such situations requires that the parties involved share a common code and interactional system. This common code and interactive system is conditioned by the normative rules of society which govern and guide the socially appropriate content and procedures involved in such interactions. Knowledge of the principles, processes, and skills involved in such human communication processes allows the parties involved to exert some influence over the outcomes of their interactions.
DONALD P. CUSHMAN & DUDLEY P. CAHN
preface, Communication in Interpersonal Relationships
I guess U know me well, I don't like winter
But I seem 2 get a kick out of doing U cold
Oh, what the hell, U always surrender
What's this strange relationship that we hold on 2?
Baby I just can't stand 2 see U happy
More than that I hate 2 see U sad
Honey if U left me I just might do something rash
What's this strange relationship? (ship, ship, ship)
PRINCE
"Strange Relationship"
In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either.
HARRIET LERNER
The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships
We will need to become savvy about how to build relationships, how to nurture growing, evolving things. All of us will need better skills in listening, communicating, and facilitating groups, because these are the talents that build strong relationships.
MARGARET WHEATLEY
Leadership and the New Science
I've seen where an affair lands you; it lands you back in a relationship, is where. A relationship strewn with the inevitable tedium, crankiness, and wanderlust that accompanies two people living together, no matter how much they love each other. You don't need to have fundamental compatibility issues; those weeds can sproud from trivial ones. It's temptation waiting to strike, the lie that I would be much happier with someone different. Something new. It promises that somewhere out there is a man who loves Mediterranean light and artisanal cuisine as much as I do, and I owe it to myself to find him and spend the rest of our lives under the Tuscan sun, eating wood-fired pizza alfresco. But different and new is just the same old if you keep doing it over and over.
KYRAN PITTMAN
Good Housekeeping, June 2011
Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
What contemporary society needs is essentially abstract human relationships, so that even faceless people like me can earn their wages with no interference.
KOBO ABE
The Face of Another
If you want a recipe for relationship failure, just wait for the other person to change first.
HARRIET LERNER
Twitter post, May 4, 2014
We had ideas about relationships. We both agreed that each pair of people must have a mutually compatible system all their own within which they can communicate, or communication falls like the Tower of Babel. A man should be able to expect his wife to play the role of Wife--be she bitchy or dutiful--when she relates to him. For her lover she may have a completely different role, but at home, on the Husband-Wife set, she must stay within the confines of that part. Or we would all wander around never knowing our friends from our strangers.
KEN KESEY
Sometimes a Great Notion
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you got two new people. Maybe that means -- hell, it's complicated.
JOHN STEINBECK
The Winter of Our Discontent