Sometimes it’s by marriages, great friendships, by a sustaining relationship to a parent. But that’s the glue of society.
Meryl Streep quotes | the glue of society
The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
George Simmel | Relationship, Reaction
All relationships of people to each other rest, as a matter of course, upon the precondition that they know something about each other.
George Simmel | Relationship
Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.
George Simmel | Reciprocal Relationship
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
George Simmel | Relationship, Secrecy
Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there’s no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.
Peter L. Berger | Relationship, Democracy, Economy
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
Relationship, People – Edmund Burke
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 – Relationship, Lie
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
George Eliot – 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 – Relationship
The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.
