RELATIONSHIP QUOTES IV
quotations about 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
If you want a recipe for relationship failure, just wait for the other person to change first.
HARRIET LERNER
Twitter post, May 4, 2014
People meet; that is well. They part; that is well, too. Life is life.
OCTAVE MIRBEAU
The Diary of a Chambermaid
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 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
We live in a time when the deepest and most painful need of the human person is for intrinsic worth, unconditional acceptance that does not depend on being good, right, controlled, conformist, or on being pretty, young, successful, rich, employed. Or on being straight, white and male. But if people do not hear the word that says, 'yes, you are accepted' through the meaningful framework of faith; if they do not hear it through their belonging within an accepting community; if they do not hear it through their closeness to the land; then people increasingly and only seek and hope to hear it in their personal, and especially sexual, relationships.
KATHY GALLOWAY
introduction, Dreaming of Eden
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
I do think on some basic level we are animals and by instinct we kind of breed accordingly. But, as much as I believe that, I work really hard when I'm in a relationship to make it work in a monogamous way.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
London Telegraph, December 10, 2006
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"
Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
The Contemporary Bauman
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
Annie Hall