Human Relationships Quotes

• We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

  Bernard Malamud

  World, Stranger, Human Relations

  Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (2003). “Dubin's Lives: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

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• 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

  Kindness, Imagination, Pitfalls

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• Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cost, Pay, Fine Things

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4037, Delphi Classics

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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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• The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Weight, Baggage, Footnotes

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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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.

  Stephen Covey

  Relationship, Duplicity, Important

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.228, Mango Media Inc.

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  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

  Albert Camus

  Relationship, Helping, Humans

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• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Letter to Emanuel von Bodman, 17 Aug. 1901

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• An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

  Adrienne Rich

  Violent, Process, Honorable

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  Relationship, Peace, Money

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.615, Best Books on

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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 Relations

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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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• 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

  Relationship, Positive, Future

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1942-1951”

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• We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

  Adrienne Rich

  People, Way, Hard

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.104, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships.

  Mark E. Petersen

  Civilization, Foundation, Humans

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• The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, World

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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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• Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

  Ross Perot

  Leadership, Business, Engineering

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• Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

  Barbara Smith

  Love, Life, Trust

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• Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and various forms of social engineering to manipulate human relationships and attitudes.

  Richard Ebeling

  Attitude, Government, Engineering

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• Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. I am also convinced that love is the most important ingredient in the single 's search for meaning.

  Gary Chapman

  Block, Love Is, Impact

  "The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition: The Secret That Will Revolutionize Your Relationships".

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• There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open to different interpretations. And if two people do have differing views about their relationship - I don't just mean about its state, I mean about its very nature - then that difference can affect the entire course of their lives.

  Elliot Perlman

  Mean, Views, Two

  "Seven Types of Ambiguity". Book by Elliot Perlman, 2003.

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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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• Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right.

  Sherry Turkle

  Mean, Technology, Self

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