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Get Inspired for Happiness Strategy 5: Nurturing Relationships

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.  

- Henri Frederic Amiel  

The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.  

- Joan Baez  

Constant togetherness is fine, but only for Siamese twins.  

- Victoria Billings  

The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells, and he smelled real nice.  

- Sandra Bullock  

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.  

- Edmund Burke  

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future --and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.  

- Albert Camus  

The Inside-Out approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self, even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.  

- Stephen R Covey  

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques, the Personality Ethic, rather than from our own inner core, the Character Ethic, others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.  

- Stephen R Covey  

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.  

- Quentin Crisp  

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.  

- Quentin Crisp  

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.  

- Anthony J D'Angelo  

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.  

- Wayne Dyer  

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.  

- Eknath Easwaran  

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.  

- Albert Einstein  

All things need watching, working at, caring for and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be treated indifferently, or abused or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention care and concern and especially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.  

- Richard L Evans  

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.  

- Benjamin Franklin  

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.  

- Betty Friedan  

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.  

- John A Hannah  

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.  

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison  

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging. It wouldn't be right to make it look too easy. [On her approach to Mad About You]  

- Helen Hunt  

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.  

- Martin Luther King Junior  

We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions, love, antipathy, charity, or malice, and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.  

- Milan Kundera  

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.  

- Mike Murdock  

You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less.  

- Mike Murdock  

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.  

- Luigi Pirandello  

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.  

- Marcel Proust  

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.  

- Anthony Robbins  

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.  

- Anthony Robbins  

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.  

- Anthony Robbins  

Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, 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  

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.  

- Arthur Schopenhauer  

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.  

- Brian Tracy  

If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.  

- Montel Williams  

It takes two men to make a brother.  

- Israel Zangwill  

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