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• There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends

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• One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

  Jane Addams

  Alive, Relation, Humans

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They make it easy to think of children as lumps of putty to be shaped instead of partners in a human relationship.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Teaching, Taken

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.594, Penguin UK

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• There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Pitfalls, Way, Danger

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• It is not until you have the courage to engage in human relationships that you grow.

  Gary Zukav

  Grows, Humans, Human Relationships

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Aug 03, 2012

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• I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values. I am not thinking so much of the dangers with which technical progress has directly confronted mankind, as of the stifling of mutual human considerations by a 'matter-of-fact' habit of thought which has come to lie like a killing frost upon human relations. Without 'ethical culture' there is no salvation for humanity.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Educational, Lying

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.53, Broadway Books

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• Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Feelings, Emotion, Problem

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• Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mean, Sleep, Talking

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• To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Risk, Relation, Wedding Ceremony

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Everyday, Trying

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• If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to be more motivated, to like me and each other-while my character is fundamentally flawed, marked by duplicity and insincerity-then, in the long run, I cannot be successful. My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do-even using so-called good human relations techniques-will be perceived as manipulative.

  Stephen Covey

  Running, Character, Successful

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence sharing an experience or simply enjoying each other's presence without saying anything.

  Thomas Keating

  Deep Love, Two Friends, Silence

  Thomas Keating (2012). “The Thomas Keating Reader: Selected Writings from the Contemplative Outreach Newsletter”, p.42, Lantern Books

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• Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.

  Peter Greenaway

  Games, Sometimes, Absurd

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• No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Relationship, Friendship Love, Misery

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• Business is a cobweb of human relationships

  Ross Perot

  Cobwebs, Humans, Human Relationships

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• The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

  Anthony Gregory

  Peace, Real, War

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• 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 Covey

  Life, Relationship, Change

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

  Mark Twain

  Born, Spots, Relation

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.127, Createspace Independent Pub

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• Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.

  E. M. Forster

  Real, Journey, Soul

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• In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

  Franz Kafka

  Lying, Circles, Humans

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

  Miles Franklin

  Relationship, Smile, Money

  Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.114, ETT Imprint

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• All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

  Anton Chekhov

  Heart, Thinking, Scary

  "In the Cart". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

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• The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

  Graham Greene

  Truth, Honesty, Kindness

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.

  Edward Noyes Westcott

  Human Nature, Relation, Folks

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• You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.

  Christopher McCandless

  Needs, Humans, Human Relationships

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