Human Relationships Quotes - Page 3

• My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.

  Vikas Swarup

  Book, People, Challenges

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• To give ourselves totally to another person, as we do in marriage, is the most trusting step we take in any human relationship.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Giving, Steps, Humans

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• No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impassable frontier between him and me, which is drawn by free will, becomes most obvious. I may not want that which he wants me to want - and in this precisely I am incommunicabilis. I am, and I must be, independent in my actions. All human relationships are posited on this fact.

  Pope John Paul II

  Independent, Doe, May

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• They may recognize themselves in what you're writing, and then they have to say, "Well, she doesn't see me as I see myself." All a writer has is her own experience, and that experience comes out of human relationships.

  Vivian Gornick

  Writing, May, Wells

  "We knew we were not liberated and were never going to be liberated. But we knew what liberation was". The Believer Interview, believermag.com. March 24, 2014.

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• If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Our Love, Humans, Human Relations

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Children, Men, Parent

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• In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.

  Ayn Rand

  Capitalist, Humans, Human Relations

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.17, Penguin

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• [The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad scale of human relationships and interactions.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Opposites, Community, Matter

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• For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that doesn't live comfortably alongside the exhortation to 'do your own thing.' In the end, we are left with an extraordinarily heightened set of expectations about the possibilities in human relationships that lives side by side with disillusion that, for many, borders on despair.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Sex, Self, Expectations

  Lillian B. Rubin (1991). “Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?”, HarperCollins

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• There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.

  Wallis Simpson

  Dark, Silence, Doubt

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• I loved writing something I'd never written before, and I wanted to write not just about "true love" but also a human relationship.

  Theodora Goss

  Writing, Wanted, Humans

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity. But human relationships, even of the simplest order, are like a kind of four-dimensional chess, a game whose pieces and positions change subtly and inexorably between moves, whose players stare dumbly while their powerful positions deteriorate into hopeless predicaments and while improbable combinations suddenly become inevitable. To make matters worse, some games are open to any number of players, and all sides are expected to win.

  Robert Grudin

  Powerful, Moving, Winning

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Approaches to growing food that align with nature changed human relationships.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Growing, Changed, Approach

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• Legal documents have mistrust written all over them. It's unfortunate, but the human DNA is so tuned to kind of taking you for granted that we tend to protect ourselves legally. That's why I don't read them as, if I read them, I will go soft. To me, the human relationship is far more important than the professional bond I share with anyone.

  Karan Johar

  Dna, Important, Kind

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• A glad welcome to this affirmation by a group of psychologists that the self does not stop at the skin nor even with the circle of human relationships but is interwoven with the lives of trees and animals and soil; that caring for the deepest needs of persons and caring for our threatened planet are not in conflict.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Caring, Animal, Self

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• The individual representation of the object, treated sympathetically or antipathetically, is highly necessary and is an enrichment to the world in form. The elimination of the human relationship causes the vacuum which makes all of us suffer in various degrees - an individual alteration of the details of the object represented is necessary in order to display on the canvas the whole physicals reality.

  Max Beckmann

  Reality, Order, Suffering

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.305, University of Chicago Press

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• Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Loyalty, Heart, Men

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.339, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

  Anthony Storr

  Marriage, Expression, Giving

  Anthony Storr (1961). “The Integrity of the Personality”

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• Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Restoration, World

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Robert C. Tucker (1972). “The Marx-Engels reader”

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• I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

  Yash Chopra

  Film, Humans, Human Relations

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• I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.

  Chris Cleave

  Athlete, Thinking, Two

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• Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and immoral, is confronted and dismantled. The powerful are denied their right to hurt the less powerful. Domination is replaced by equity in a shift or substitution of institutions. That shift eventually forms new human relationships, both personally and across society.

  Lierre Keith

  Hurt, Powerful, Simple

  Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith (2011). “Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet”, p.208, Seven Stories Press

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• Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind ... but we won’t break.

  Fred Rogers

  Blow, Wind, People

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.51, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I think there was a warmer relationship between the models and the designers and even the businesspeople involved. It was not so cut-throat and not so corporate. And I think today it's just big business and big money, and I don't think the human relationship is there as much. I think it's very changed.

  Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

  Thinking, Today, Designer

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It's difficult to parent one kid, let alone five! It's insane. It's this strange, overwhelming mess that I would not trade for anything. I think it's more difficult in New York City. It's not like we can hop in the minivan and go somewhere. I don't own a car. It's chaos anywhere. Being a parent is difficult. Being a son and a daughter is difficult. It's a human relationship.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Daughter, Kids, Son

  Source: www.esquire.com

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