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I hate and I love: why I do so you may well ask. I do not know, but I feel it happen and am in agony.
Odi et amo: quare id facium, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
-Catullus
Carmina
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Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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Like associates with like.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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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 Covey
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The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.
-Stephen Covey
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
-Quentin Crisp
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
-Quentin Crisp
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Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
-Anthony D'Angelo
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Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.
-Colette Dowling
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The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.
-Marguerite Duras
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
-Wayne Dyer
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It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
-Eknath Easwaran
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Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.
-Barbara Ehrenreich
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In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
-Albert Einstein
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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
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All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished. They are punished by fear. Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet as water meets water, or as two currents of air mix, with perfect diffusion and interpenetration of nature. But as soon as there is any departure from simplicity, and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbour feels the wrong; he shrinks from me as far as I have shrunk from him; his eyes no longer seek mine; there is war between us; there is hate in him and fear in me.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All things need watching, working at, caring for and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be treated indifferently, or abused or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention care and concern and especially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.
-Richard L. Evans
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Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
Faithful 1994, Colston Hall
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My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.
-Jane Fonda
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
-Benjamin Franklin
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
-Betty Friedan
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When speaking, being present means you choose to respond rather than react, letting go of emotions and objections and remaining focused on what is to be achieved.
-Suzanne Mayo Frindt
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If you want to be a winner, hang around with winners
-Christopher D. Furman
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Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.
-Elizabeth Gaskell
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Books about Relationships
