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• I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to the very soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.

  Franz Kafka

  Hate, Thinking, People

  "I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings".

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• [Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.” “Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events. “So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.” “Huh?” I say.

  Jodi Picoult

  Weekend, Talking, Lunch

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• Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces - all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top. It can be hard to explain. But I also relate to the quote that says, Iif you have to ask, you will never understand.

  Bear Grylls

  Men, People, Risk

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• And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died.

  Suzanne Weyn

  Simple, Wonder, Ends

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• The hardest thing is being with other people — it's like they're on a different wavelength, but only you know it. They talk about their lives and what's wrong with them, and you kind of, like, just let them go. It's a whole different language, and you've got to remember that you can only respond in their mother tongue. It's really hard to relate.

  J.R. Ward

  Mother, People, Different

  "Lover at Last: Number 11 in series".

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• Remember that introverts react not only to new people, but also to new places and events. So don’t mistake a child’s caution in new situations for an inability to relate to others. He’s recoiling from novelty or overstimulation, not from human contact. Introverts are just as likely as the next kid to seek others’ company, though often in smaller doses

  Susan Cain

  Children, Mistake, Kids

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• Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever.

  Graeme Simsion

  Father, Men, Forever

  Graeme Simsion (2013). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

  Amartya Sen

  Freedom, Poverty, Sometimes

  Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.4, Anchor

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• Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

  Christopher McCandless

  Mean, Humor, Deep Thought

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• I'm just doing what I do best and that's what makes good music, and that's how you can relate to people.

  Snoop Dogg

  Music, People

  "New Again: Hot Hollywood Dogs". Interview with Carl Hancock Rux, Scott Caan, Joseph Steuer and Sam Hamm, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 26, 2015.

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• As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can manipulate according to our real or fabricated needs, nature remains opaque, and does not reveal to us its true being.

  Henri Nouwen

  Nature, Real, Ocean

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation”, p.86, Image

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• ...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Men, Religion, Purpose

  Robert Neelly Bellah, Steven M. Tipton (2006). “The Robert Bellah Reader”, p.24, Duke University Press

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• The law of giving and receiving is fundamental, and relates just as much to God as it does to us. As we go through the door of giving ourselves to God in worship we find that God comes through that same door and gives Himself to us. God's insistence that we worship Him is not really a demand at all but an offer-an offer to share Himself with us. When God asks us to worship Him, He is asking us to fulfill the deepest longing in Himself, which is His passionate desire to give Himself to us. It is what Martin Luther called "the joyful exchange."

  Selwyn Hughes

  Doors, Law, Passionate Desire

  Selwyn Hughes (1997). “Every Day Light: Daily Inspirations from Selwyn Hughes and Thomas Kinkade”, B & H Publishing Group

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• Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's covering up our experience of just being here, just fully being where we are, so that we can relate with the immediacy of our experience. Egolessness is a state of mind that has complete confidence in the sacredness of the world. It is unconditional well being, unconditional joy that includes all the different qualities of our experience.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Views, Joy

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.80, Shambhala Publications

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• I don't think that the economy can absorb a massive flow of immigration that does not relate to the issue of persecution.

  Janet Reno

  Thinking, Issues, Immigration

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• A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.

  Mark the Evangelist

  Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual

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• I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or mathematical reasonings.

  Hiram Maxim

  Science, Humanity, Majority

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• Not everyone knows how to be alone with others, how to share solitude. We have to help each other to understand how to be in our solitude, so that we can relate to each other without grabbing on to each other. We can be interdependent but not dependent. Loneliness is rejected despondency. Solitude is shared interdependence.

  David Spangler

  Loneliness, Solitude, Helping

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• In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.

  James Ishmael Ford

  Friendship, Spiritual, Ideals

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• It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.

  Alex Karras

  Strength, Success, Courage

  "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I can't relate to these haters, my enemies never made it.

  Drake

  Hater, Humble, Enemy

  Song: The Resistance, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

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• Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  History, Done, Historian

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.278, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Compassion, People, Empowering

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• Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Black, Culture

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• I do not teach. I relate.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, Teaching, Teach

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