Human Relationships Quotes - Page 8

• It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction... It is a system which can also in some measure, even compensate for the lack of emotional fulfilment in human relationships.

  Mervyn Levy

  Emotional, Expression, Satisfaction

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• The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Heart, Essentials

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• Art problems are problems of human relationship.

  Josef Albers

  Art, Problem, Humans

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• I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened) in human relationships... the notion of class entails the notion of historical relationship. ...And class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs

  E. P. Thompson

  Men, Class, Historical

  E. P. Thompson (1963). “THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS”

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• No other human relationship can approach the potential for intimacy and oneness than can be found within the context of a marriage commitment. And yet no other relationship can bring with it as many adjustments, difficulties and even hurts. There's no way you can avoid these difficulties; each couple's journey is unique. But there is much you can do to prepare for that journey. An engagement is not just a time of preparation for a wedding, but also preparation for a marriage.

  Dennis Rainey

  Hurt, Couple, Commitment

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• It is not enough for the Church to be engaged with the State in healing social ills, though this is important at times. But when the world can turn around and see a group of God's people exhibiting substantial healing in the area of human relationships in their present life, then the world will take notice. Each group of Christians is, as it were, a pilot plant, showing that something can be done in the present situation, if only we begin in the right way.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Healing, People

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• I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

  Thomas Jane

  Relationship, Thinking, People

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• The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances, and integrates the needs of both is the real trick of feedback.

  Richard Pascale

  Inspirational, Educational, Real

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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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• You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only...from human relationships. God has placed it all around us...and all you have to do is reach for it.

  Jon Krakauer

  Thinking, Joy, Humans

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Aug 19, 2011

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• It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

  E. O. Wilson

  Believe, People, Survival

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• Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.

  Thomas Szasz

  Philosophy, Mean, Advice

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• As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

  Mother Teresa

  Mean, Knowing, Suffering

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are being loving when actually they are being possessive or manipulative. People sometimes treat others as objects to satisfy their own needs... How easy it is to be deceived by the many voices in our society that advocate a permissive approach to sexuality, without regard for modesty, self-respect or the moral values that bring quality to human relationships! This is worship of a false god. Instead of bringing life, it brings death.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Life, Love Is, Self

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting with a Group of Disadvantaged Young People of The Rehabilitation Community of The University Of Notre Dame in Sydney, w2.vatican.va. July 18, 2008.

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• Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

  Natalie Wood

  Roles, Actors, Today

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• It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Thinking, Doe, Alive

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Fear Of The Inexplicable”

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• More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible

  Tillie Olsen

  Mean, Motherhood, Responsible

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• Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Relationship, Rough Edges, Perfect

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.19, Nilgiri Press

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• At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational Love, Inner Peace, Juncture

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.104, Penguin

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• Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

  Daniel Goleman

  People, Importance, Western

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• War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.

  Harry Elmer Barnes

  Peace, War, Problem

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• [The blame for the future 'plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the responsibility for the profound social upheavals which their own work primarily has brought about in human relationships.

  Frederick Soddy

  Hard Work, Responsibility, Acceptance

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• When you let God be God you can let humans be humans. When we place God in His rightful place in our lives, we don't struggle so much when human relationships let us down.

  Joshua Harris

  Struggle, Humans, Our Lives

  Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.154, Multnomah

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• There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once, she sees you looking at her, and then she doesn't want to joke around with you anymore, because she doesn't want to seem flirty, because she doesn't want you to think she likes you. It's such a disaster, whenever, in the course of human relationships, someone begins to chisel away at the wall of separation between friendship and kissing.

  John Green

  Wall, Flirty, Kissing

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.114, Penguin

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• Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?

  Jonathan Haidt

  Running, Motor Oil, Car

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