Relationships

(501 votes)   We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(493 votes)   One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(469 votes)   My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(440 votes)   You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(431 votes)   A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.

Woody Allen
1935-, American Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Comedian

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(406 votes)   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

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(355 votes)   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
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(350 votes)   Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.

Barbara Ehrenreich
1941-, American Author, Columnist

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(345 votes)   The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.

Marguerite Duras
1914-, French Author, Filmmaker

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(327 votes)   If going into the past was as easy as taking a step backward, we would never move forward.

Nicole Valenica

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(318 votes)   I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.

D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author

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(317 votes)   The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.

Alexandria Penney

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

Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

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(309 votes)   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
1929-, Czech Author, Critic

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(251 votes)   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
American Speaker, Trainer, Author of ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People''

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