People In Our Lives Quotes - Page 2

• Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy and connection with others. How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice.

  Harriet Lerner

  Heart, Voice, Knowing

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• I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important people in our lives can become fertile ground for the growth of enduring trust - trust that is actually stronger because it's been tested and proved through challenge.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, People, Challenges

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• The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so that there will be people in our lives for 30 years and often it is not your husband, it's your women friends, male friends with whom you come of age.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Husband, Years, Opposites

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• The only way we know we love ourselves and the people in our life is by the agreements we are willing to make and keep

  Madonna Ciccone

  Agreement, People, Way

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• As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Family, Christmas, Struggle

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• We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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