Interpersonal Relationships Quotes

“Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars

“They bustled around chatting. It was the first time I listened closely, and I was astonished at how much they had to say, the passion with which they repeated the same thing in ten different ways so as to avoid noticing, in fact, that they had absolutely nothing to say to each other for ages, but human beings need to speak, otherwise they lose their humanity”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“To switch effectively from defense to social engagement strategies, the nervous system must do two things: (1) assess risk, and (2) if the environment looks safe, inhibit the primitive defensive reactions to fight, flight or freeze.”
― Stephen W. Porges, The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation

“Still, she really did seem to be absurdly into this. It was almost existentially unsettling, that two people in such close physical proximity could be experiencing the same moment so differently.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

“The closest one person can get to another is through silence.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, I Served the King of England

“Sometimes the things that went on between two people were so private and so painful the the rest of the world needed to reserve judgement.”
― Amy Lane, Ethan in Gold

“To a degree that we seldom realize, we depend upon the participation of others in our lives, and upon our own participation in the lives of others. Our success and effectiveness as persons is based upon this participation, and upon an ability to maintain a controlling competence in communicating with others.”
― Roy Wagner, The Invention of Culture

“Let us all stop being controlled by the fear of disappointing others and let us all learn how to stop perpetuating the cycle of manipulating our children through their fear of disappointing us. The people we love are allowed to be disappointed in us and we are allowed to be disappointed in the people we love. Everyone is allowed to experience life as it may flow. Nobody is born as a safeguard to other people's life experiences. Live AUTHENTICALLY; do not live out of the fear of dissapointing others nor out of the fear of being disappointed. And above all: change the narrative for the next generation. Your kids were not born *for* you. People are born for themselves.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Sweet conversation is good for the heart and
and a good pill for forgetting bitter and wasteful
thoughts; for a moment, it mutes so many bad
thoughts and it keeps the heart calm”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Pills For Heathy Life

“If you are upset by someone's behaviour, this only means that you have to work on yourself before you try to correct the other person.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“There's a low-level, specific pain and having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“Who am I to take away another person's choices?”
― Akiah Watts, Fragments

“...there must be some people for whom difficult behaviour wasn't a reason to end their relationship with you. If they liked you...then, it seemed, they were prepared to maintain contact, even if you were sad, or upset, or behaving in very challenging ways... It wasn't that you could take them for granted, as such - heaven knows, nothing can be taken for granted in this life - it was simply that you would know, almost unthinkingly, that they'd be there if you needed them, no matter how bad things got.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

“We can only win over the opponent by love, never by hate. Hate is the subtlest form of violence. Hatred injures the hater, never the hated.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments With Truth

“There's a low-level, specific pain in having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“Oh, my God, Ted," she moaned, fakely.

They dated for the next four months.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

“Možete riječima nastojati izmanipulirati svijet tako da dobijete od njega ono što želite. To nazivamo ''političkim djelovanjem''. To je spin. To je specijalnost beskrupuloznih marketinških stručnjaka, trgovaca, oglašivača, opsjenara, utopista opsjednutih sloganima i psihopata. Kada pokušavaju utjecati na druge i manipulirati njima, ljudi se koriste govorom. To rade studenti kada pišu esej kojim želje udovoljiti profesoru, umjesto da artikuliraju i iznađu vlastite ideje. To je ono što svi rade kada nešto žele i odluče se pretvarati i lagati da bi udovoljili i laskali. To je spletkarenje, izmišljanje parola i propaganda.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“That is one of the tragedies of aging, appreciating how many good and interesting people have passed by unknown.”
― Scott Turow, The Last Trial

“To our children we say, “Don’t talk back to me, I’m your parent.” To our spouse we give the message, “Let’s live and let live. If you criticize me, I’ll be a bitch to live with, and you’ll regret it.” To their families and the world the elderly give the message, “I am old and fragile. If you challenge me I may die or at least you will bear upon your head the responsibility for making my last days on earth miserable.” To our employees we communicate, “If you are bold enough to challenge me at all, you had best do so very circumspectly indeed or else you’ll find yourself looking for another job.”
― Scott Peck

“Relationships - Personal or Professional



Be kind enough to UNDERSTAND WITHOUT BIASES;

Be assertive enough to EXPRESS YOUR OPINIONS;

Be humble enough to APPRECIATE FEEDBACKS and OWN YOUR MISTAKES;

Be forgiving enough NOT TO RETALIATE;

Be empathetic enough to REACT WITH COMPASSION;

Give space enough to NOT INTRUDE IN SOMEONE'S PRIVACY;

Be respectful enough to NOT INDULGE IN BAD GOSSIPS;

Be bold enough to DO THE RIGHT THING;

Be strong-hearted enough to LEAVE THAT WHERE THE ALIENATION IS MORE THAN HARMONY;

Be trustworthy enough for a HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP;

Be caring enough to HELP WHENEVER YOU CAN;

Be strong enough to SAY NO;

Have Integrity enough to BE ON YOUR WORD.”
― Vandini

“Relationships - Personal or Professional



Be kind enough to UNDERSTAND WITHOUT BIASES;

Be assertive enough to EXPRESS YOUR OPINIONS;

Be humble enough to APPRECIATE FEEDBACKS and OWN YOUR MISTAKES;

Be forgiving enough NOT TO RETALIATE;

Be empathetic enough to REACT WITH COMPASSION;

Give space enough to NOT INTRUDE IN SOMEONE'S PRIVACY;

Be respectful enough to NOT INDULGE IN BAD GOSSIPS;

Be bold enough to DO THE RIGHT THING;

Be strong-hearted enough to LEAVE THAT WHERE THE ALIENATION IS MORE THAN HARMONY;

Be trustworthy enough for a HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP;

Be caring enough to HELP WHENEVER YOU CAN;

Be strong enough to SAY NO;

Have Integrity enough to BE ON YOUR WORD.”
― Vandini Bhandari

“Unsurety is insincerity.”
― Vandini Bhandari

“I always miss my wife, even when she's right in front of me.”
― Sandi Tan, The Black Isle

“Laughter is a wonderful thing, but when it becomes a means of constantly mocking everything and everyone, it loses its charm. People who constantly joke at the expense of others may not realize that they are the ones who should become more self-aware. Instead of bringing positivity and joy, their humor becomes a tool to mask deeper issues. It's essential to learn to appreciate people and situations instead of constant mockery because true humor lies in that appreciation”.”
― A.Petrovski

“Quería una relación, tan solo una, que fuera simple.”
― Kiersten White, The Guinevere Deception

“La gente es rara. Nos lastimamos unos a otros, chocamos, impulsamos a los otros, nos dejamos impulsar... estamos conectados levemente.”
― Natsuki Kizu, ギヴン 9 [Given 9]

“The worst thing anxiety ever did was to turn everyone into a stranger, no matter how many times you interacted with them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Being present is not just being in the same room with someone. Being present is about giving your time, attention, and interest to that person. As a leader, one of the greatest gifts you can give someone.”
― Nick Chellsen, A Leader Worth Imitating: 33 Leadership Principles From the Life of Jesus

“An impersonal sexual orientation, which is typically associated with desires for a relatively large number of sexual partners, creates a high likelihood of rejection experiences… A relatively heightened sensitivity to rejection may lead to a subjective perception of frequent rejections irrespective of the objective reality.”
― David M. Buss, Sex, Power, Conflict: Evolutionary and Feminist Perspectives

“I loved you like the ocean — endless, consuming, and impossible to hold.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Living Colorful Beauty