Relationships

Our relationships with other people constitute one of the fundamental aspects of our lives. After all, we human beings are social creatures. Unfortunately, many factors stand in the way of our relationship with people; conflicting self-interest, inhibition, attitude problems, cynicism, scepticism, inability to listen, intolerance towards individual differences... The list goes on. These and many more other human follies keep us from building meaningful relationships.

Relationships are always complicated. Any sort of relationship takes work – a lot of work. Be it between couples, lovers, siblings, friends, parents and children, or simply just two individuals. If people have no idea what a relationship entailed, they will have problems maintaining the relationship.

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

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

A boat is never truly deemed seaworthy unless it has survived the wildest of storms, not by its age or how pretty it looks to you or others on the out. The sturdiest of relationships are never the ones that are the smoothest sailing. - Unknown

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Human Relationships

When we talk about a relationship, we usually refer to the romantic relationship between two people. However, a relationship is also defined as the way in which two or more people or things are connected, or the state of being connected. It could be our relationship with our family, friends, colleagues, and our relationship with things and the world at large.

No matter how independent we think we are, or would like to be, the fact remains that a person cannot live a lone existence. It is just not possible. We interact with our fellow-men every day, if not face to face, we do it through we the phone, text messages, the computer, etc...

Our casual relationships, and friendships provide us with opportunities for brief shared experiences, and the exchanging of information, feelings and ideas which can serve to counteract feelings of isolation and boredom.

Human beings are social animals – some more so than others. That being the case, it is not far off to say that our quality of life depends in part, on how well we relate to other people, and how well we get on with the people around us.

We are all different – in character, in behaviour, in temperament etc... No two people are quite alike although they might share some common character traits or interests. As such, getting along with people requires tact. Some would say getting along with people is an art.

The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves. Everything happening in your life results from the way you treat yourself through thoughts, words and actions. Hence, at the end of the day, truly, the most important relationship you have is with yourself.

Some quotes on non-romantic relationships

If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don’t have to help you. - Douglas Conant

It’s often when we are not looking for others to fill a particular void, or to make us feel a certain way, that most of our truest and most valuable relationships are formed. - Mark DeNicola

We can find reasons to dislike anyone. But it's what you focus on and appreciate in a person that cultivates a positive relationship. - David J. Lieberman

The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important. - W M. Paul Young

Good relationships make people happy, and happy people enjoy more and better relationships than unhappy people. Conflicts in relationships – having an annoying office mate or roommate, or having chronic conflict with your spouse – is one of the surest ways to reduce your happiness. - Jonathan Haidt

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Relationship - Quotes

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. - Wayne Dyer

Relationships are not exams to pass or fail and not a competition to win or lose, but it’s a feeling in which you care for someone more than yourself. - Unknown

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person. - Brian Tracy

Relationships don’t always make sense. Especially from the outside. - Sarah Dessen

The best thing to spend on your relationship is time, conversation, understanding, and honesty. - Unknown

The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don't mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations. - Scott Adams

The more you move in rhythm with someone, the closer you become with that person. - George Leonard

The most important relationship you have is with yourself. Everything happening in you life results from the way you treat yourself through thoughts, words and actions. - Roxana Jones

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. - Steve Maraboli

The one who loves least controls the relationship. - Unknown

The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant of the old leaven of slavery. It is necessarily destructive of refined love; for how can a man continue to regard as his type of the ideal a being whom he has, be denying an equality of privilege with himself, degraded to something below himself? - Herbert Spencer

The Relationship you have with yourself is the most important relationship of all. - Unknown

The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know if they’ll miss you or forget about you. - Nicholas Sparks

The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important. - WM. Paul Young

We can find reasons to dislike anyone. But it's what you focus on and appreciate in a person that cultivates a positive relationship. - David J. Lieberman

We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes broke. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger. - T. S. Eliot

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence. - Cornel West

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is… suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with. - Gillian Anderson

When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman. - Steve Maraboli

When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment. - Bell Hooks

You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today. - Fred Rogers

You can be happy in a relationship, but you don’t need a relationship to be happy. - Unknown

You can’t just give up on someone because the situation’s not ideal. Great relationships aren’t great because they have no problems. They’re great because both people are enough about the other person to find a way to make it work. - Unknown

You can't build a relationship with a hammer. - Unknown

You’ll know when a relationship is right for you. It will enhance your life, not complicate your life. - Brigitte Nicole

Relationship - Quotes

A healthy relationship keeps the doors and windows wide open. Plenty of air is circulating and no one feels trapped. Relationships thrive in this environment. Keep your doors and windows open. If the person is meant to be in your life, all the open doors and windows in the world will not make them leave. Trust that truth. - Unknown

A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed. - Nora Roberts

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. - W.H. Auden

Anyone can get married, but it takes a special relationship to stay married. - Heather

As two pieces of wood floating on the ocean come together at one time and are again separated, even such is the union of living creatures in this world. - The Mahabharata

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier. - Susan Lieberman

Do yourself a favour and learn how to walk away. When a connection starts to fade, learn how to let it go. When a person starts to mistreat you, learn how to move on to something and someone better. Don’t waste your energy trying to force something that isn’t meant to be, because the truth is, for every one person who doesn’t value you, there are tons more waiting to love you better. Do better. - Reyma Biddy

Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself. - Oprah Winfrey

Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys. - Nicholas Sparks

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing. - Brian L. Weiss

Good relationships make people happy, and happy people enjoy more and better relationships than unhappy people. Conflicts in relationships – having an annoying office mate or roommate, or having chronic conflict with your spouse – is one of the surest ways to reduce your happiness. You never adapt to interpersonal conflict; it damages every day, even days when you don't see the other person but ruminate about the conflict nonetheless. - Jonathan Haidt

I don’t know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest – it doesn’t exist. - Richard Gere

If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don’t have to help you. - Douglas Conant

In human relationships, distance is not measured in miles but in affection. Two people can be right next to each other, yet miles apart. - Unknown

It’s often when we are not looking for others to fill a particular void, or to make us feel a certain way, that most of our truest and most valuable relationships are formed. - Mark DeNicola

It's important not to lose who you are in a relationship just because it's nice to cuddle with somebody. - Scarlett Johansson

Just because someone is single doesn’t mean they’re lonely. Some people are in relationships and they’ve forgotten what happiness is. - Drake

No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion. - Laura Esquivel

No relationship is all sunshine, but two people can share one umbrella and survive the storm together. - Unknown

No relationship is perfect nor will anyone ever be the best boyfriend or girlfriend. Long as you put in the effort and try to make your lover happy. That’s all we can ask for. - Kevin McCarty

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater. - Sarah Dessen

One must preserve some mystery in one's relationship.... A book that one has not read yet is always more exciting than a book one has memorized. - Cassandra Clare

Your relationship should be a safe haven, not a battlefield. The world is hard enough already. - Unknown

Relationship - Quotes

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose. - Jo Courdert

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree, but still hold hands. - Anonymous Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they need to run free, until they find someone just as wild to run with. - Carrie Bradshaw

The relationship that counts most in my life is the one I have with myself. I have a great, great, great relationship with myself, and it gets better and better as I get older. - Diane von Furstenberg

Too many girls rush into relationships because of the fear of being single, then start making compromises, and losing their identity. Don't do that. - Katy Perry

SINGLE is not a status. It is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others! - Abigail Rajkumar

Most relationships fail because we spend too much time pointing out each other’s mistakes and not time enjoying each other’s company. - Unknown

Being single doesn't mean you know nothing about love. Sometimes being solo is wiser than being in a false relationship. - Unknown

I don't need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves. - Shirley MacLaine

Being single isn't bad. What is bad is giving up hope on finding that someone special. - Unknown 

Relationship

When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we’re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on – serial polygamy – until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter. - Tom Robbins

Relationship - Quotes

A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present and encourages your future. - Unknown

A healthy relationship is one in which two people encourage each other to reach their respective goals while sharing each other's hopes and dreams. - Unknown

A great relationship is about two things. First, appreciating the similarities, and second, respecting the differences. - Unknown

A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams, or your dignity. - Mandy Hale

A relationship without trust is like a car without gas. You can stay in it all you want, but it won’t go anywhere. - Unknown

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell

Any serious human relationship takes work. Not so much in the sense of learning the right rules or formulas that govern all relationships (if there were such things), but in two individuals working together to find what is best for both of them. - Leo Buscaglia

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. - Henry Winkler

All failed relationships hurt, but losing someone who doesn't appreciate and respect you is actually a gain, not a loss. - Unknown

Being alone may scare you but staying in a bad relationship will damage you. - Unknown

Don’t cheat in a relationship. If you are not happy then just leave. - Unknown

Don’t find reasons to stay with someone who always finds a reason to leave. - Unknown

Don’t let a little dispute injure a great relationship. - Unknown

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way. - Unknown

Good relationships don’t just happen. They take time, patience, and two people who really want to be together. - Unknown

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. - Graham Greene

Intimate relationships which extend beyond sociability and offer opportunities for prolonged togetherness, can offer us the most growth -producing setting in which we may be ourselves and express that self freely within a reliable, safe, accepting, encouraging and trusting environment. - Unknown

If you are not happy being single. You will never be happy in a relationship. Get your own life and love it first. Then share it. Love when you're ready. Not when you're lonely. - Unknown

It’s the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it’s the little differences that make them interesting. - Todd Ruthman

Many relationships fail because we spend too much time pointing out each other’s mistakes and not enough time enjoying each other’s company. - Unknown 

No partner in a love relationship should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. - May Sarton

No relationship is ever a waste of time. If it didn’t bring you what you want, it taught you want you don’t want. - Unknown

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we’re always trying to live up to. - Andrew Cohen

Regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place. - Unknown

Relationships are about trust. If you have to play detective, then it’s time to move on. - Unknown

Relationships are about two individuals who maintain their own lives and create another one together. - Unknown

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than hurt yourself trying to put them back together. - Unknown

Relationships aren’t designed for selfish individuals. - Unknown  

So many go into relationships hoping to get something and feel something to make them feel complete. When in actuality, a relationship is about sharing who you already are in your wholeness and then bathing in the beauty and adventure of that. - Shari Alyse

So often it is only when people suddenly feel they are losing their partner that they realize how much they love them. Then they cling on even tighter. But the more they grasp, the more the other person escapes them, and the more fragile the relationship becomes. - Sogyal Rinpoche

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

Talk and activities are the glue that holds relationships together; it creates connections between people and a sense of community. - Unknown

The best person to talk about the problems in your relationship is the person you’re in a relationship with. - Unknown

The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. - Unknown

The best relationship is when you can act like lovers and best friends at the same time. - Unknown

The most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. - Carrie Bradshaw

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvellous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. - Sir Hugh Walpole

The only real security in relationship is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. It lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. - Anne Lindbergh

The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness. - Neale Donald Walsch

The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves. - Unknown

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. - Anthony D'Angelo

Trust is a very important factor for all relationships. When trust is broken, it is the end of the relationship. Lack of trust leads to suspicion, suspicion generates anger, anger causes enmity and enmity may result in separation. - Leo Buscaglia  

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship. - Barbara De Angelis

You can’t expect to have a deep relationship with a shallow person. - Doe Zantamata  

Relationship - Article

A relationship is how two separate humans subtly become one. If people have no idea what a relationship entailed, they will fail miserably.

All of us need love, care, attention and recognition to be emotionally, mentally and physically healthy. Therefore, we have to spend time, effort and energy to build up trust, love, and care that are the fabrics of a relationship. 

It is mainly through intimate, continuing companionship that we can be presented with another’s unique world and can receive an honest reflection of our own. 

Living happily together is essentially a business of being prepared to compromise. In our relations with one another there has to give and as well as take. Of course, there are bound to be occasions when we cannot see eye to eye and get on each other’s nerves. 

Since it is the nature of relationships to occasionally breed misunderstandings, it is essential to learn to look for the trouble spots. 

The following are some problematic areas:

When trust is broken, it is the end of the relationship. Lack of trust leads to suspicion, suspicion generates anger, anger causes enmity and enmity may result in separation.

Jealousy has ruined many intimate relationships. Each of us do not have exclusive rights to anyone and trying to cling on to one relationship is unhealthy because the tendency is to overload and overwork the relationship.

Creating space in your relationships means expanding your interests and having other relationships. It is not healthy to build your world around one person.

In any relationship we must be prepared to make changes and shifts in the relationship. This is necessary if you desire to build healthy relationships where both parties are allowed to grow and adjust to the changes.

People who apologize are not weak. It takes strength to admit that you are wrong. Apologize when you are wrong. All of us are wrong – plenty of time. It is foolish to let pride and insecurity keep us from saying so and patching up the friendship. Host of problems could be avoided by the use of one word – sorry!

A true apology is more than just acknowledgement of a mistake. It is recognition that something you have said or done has damaged a relationship – and that you care enough about the relationship to want it repaired and restored.

Two people who can keep love alive are the most special human beings on earth. That is why I find it so sweet and so touching when I see elderly couples hand-in-hand.

Their silence shows their togetherness and ease with each other. That’s the most formidable task - one of the things a couple has to constantly work on.

Any endeavour involving love should be experienced fully and with abandon. If it fails, at least we’ll know what doesn’t work and can try again.

Our Relationship With Our Fellowman

No matter how independent we think we are, or would like to be, the fact remains that a person cannot live a lone existence. It is just not possible. We interact with our fellowmen every day, from the moment we step out of the house till we come home. And even then, we interact with people through the phone, text messages, computer, chat rooms etc……..

Our relationship with other people constitute one of the fundamental facet of our lives. We may find some people interesting to be with, and may try to get to know them better, or we may find people boring, and try to avoid them.

Psychologists are well aware of a clear link between depression and social isolation, especially in the elderly, who lack the regular structure, the daily routine, that brings them into contact with others. Losing the opportunity to trade information also deprives a person of the means to explore problems.

Our casual relationships, and friendships provide us with opportunities for brief shared experiences, and the exchanging of information, feelings and ideas which can serve to counteract feelings of isolation and boredom.

Human beings are social animals – some more so than others. That being the case, it is not far off to say that our quality of life depends in part, on how well we relate to other people, and how well we get on with the people around us. 

Unfortunately, many factors stand in the way of our relationship with people; conflicting self-interest, inhibition, attitude problem, cynicism, scepticism, inability to listen, intolerance towards individual differences... The list goes on. These and many more other human follies keep us from building meaningful relationships. 

We are all different - in character, in behaviour, in temperament etc…. No two people are quite alike although they might share some common character traits or interests. As such, getting along with people requires tact. Some would say getting along with people is an art.

We may not be friends. We may not even like the fellow. But, there is no need to be enemies. A little give and take on both sides, a little forbearance, will make life a little smoother and easier for everyone. It might help to bear in mind that life is short, and a little goodwill all around will not only be much appreciated, it will benefit us as well.

After all, “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.” - John Donne 

And it is said that the best indication of our maturity is in our ability to form growing, meaningful and lasting relationships.