Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain de Botton

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Charles James Fox

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

Breckin Meyer

I think it can be fun to be single and date like when you don't want a relationship. Or when you've just gotten out of a relationship, and, after get over the initial shock, you're thinking, hey, it's kind of cool being single.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Bruce Lee

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Edmund Burke

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Eckhart Tolle

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

We have a relationship with our customer, and that relationship translates into sales.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

Anne Lamott

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

Albert Schweitzer

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Albert Camus

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

Albert Camus

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.

Don Herold

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

Dale Carnegie

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Dale Carnegie

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.

Ann Richards

One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.

Anatole Broyard

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anne Frank

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

Chuck Palahniuk

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

Chuck Klosterman

But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind of mind-blowing, transcendent romantic relationship they perceive to be a normal part of living. And someone needs to take the fall for this. So instead of blaming no one for this (which is kind of cowardly) or blaming everyone (which is kind of meaningless), I'm going to blame John Cusack.

Chuck Klosterman

I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.

Anthony de Mello

All conflict comes from attachment.

Anne Rice

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

Anita Brookner

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.

Alice Cooper

All sliced up and sealed tight in baggies. Guess love makes you do funny things.

Aesop

We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.

Aesop

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.