Inspirations

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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Get Inspired for Happiness Strategy 5: Nurturing Relationships

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

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

Constant togetherness is fine, but only for Siamese twins.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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]

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

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.

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

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

It takes two men to make a brother.

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