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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
Never say I love youIf you really don't care.Never talk about feelingsIf they aren't really there.Never hold my handIf you are going to break my heart.Never say you're going toIf you don't really plan to start.Never look into my eyesIf all you do is lie.Never say helloIf what you really mean is goodbye.If you really mean foreverThen say you will try.Never say foreverCause forever makes me cry.
Anon.
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.
If we want to be loved, we must disclose ourselves. If we want to love someone, he must permit us to know him. This would seem to be obvious. Yet most of us spend a great part of our lives thinking up ways to avoid becoming known.Indeed, much of human life is best described as impersonation. We are role players, every one of us. We say that we feel things we do not feel. We say things we did not do. We say that we believe things we do not believe. We pretend that we are loving when we are full of hostility. We pretend that we are calm and indifferent when we are actually trembling with anxiety and fear.Of course we cannot tell even the people we know and love everything we think or feel. But our mistakes are nearly always in the other direction. Even in families -- good families -- people wear masks a great deal of the time.
Sidney Jourard, The Transparent
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
Edmund Burke
I am going to-morrow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.
Jane Austen
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
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of
Victor Hugo
For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.
Warren Beatty
I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part of your life, and it's over. It would have been better to win, but either way, it's over. Life will go on.
Stephen King
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Sydney Smith
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
Luigi Pirandello
Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all
Friedrich Nietzsche
Never contradict anybody.
Benjamin Franklin
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Abraham Lincoln
The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.
Allen J. Boone
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibili
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Wayne Dyer
No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.
Paulo Coelho
