Relationships

(128 votes)   The ''Inside-Out'' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self -- with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Stephen R. Covey
American Speaker, Trainer, Author of ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People''

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(103 votes)   Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

Anthony Robbins
1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant

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(88 votes)   People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie.

Truman Capote
1942-, American Author

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(88 votes)   The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.

Anthony Robbins
1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant

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(81 votes)   Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
1941-, American Author, Publicist

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(77 votes)   Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(71 votes)   Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.

Julie Burchill
British Journalist, Writer

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(70 votes)   Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.

Gerda Lerner
1920-, American Educator, Author

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(68 votes)   I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging. It wouldn't be right to make it look too easy. [On her approach to Mad About You]

Helen Hunt

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(65 votes)   Is what I am saying loving, compassionate, kind, empowering, or insightful?

Rhonda Britten
Founder, Fearless Living Institute

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(65 votes)   It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, bit it is the little differences that make them interesting.

Todd Ruthman

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(63 votes)   The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells -- and he smelled real nice.

Sandra Bullock
1964-, American Actress

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(57 votes)   The problem with relationships are that people are so busy falling in love that they forget to fall in like.

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(56 votes)   If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.

Montel Williams
American TV Personality, Author

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(56 votes)   When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

Bob Seger
American Musician, Singer

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