Relationships Quotes

Connection, conflict, and everything in between. What our bonds with others teach us about ourselves.

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"Relationships are mirrors of the soul."
Ibn Arabi
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"Know one another in the eternal light, not in the darkness of the flesh."
George Fox
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"Truthfulness is the foundation of all genuine relationships."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Relationships mirror back to us our own spiritual state."
Jacob Böhme
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"Relationships are the mirror in which we see our true self reflected."
Jacob Böhme
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"Let there be spaces in your togetherness."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"I am a mirror. I reflect you. You are a mirror. You reflect me."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"The guest is inside you and also inside me."
Hafiz
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"Be in communion with thy loved ones."
Hafiz
"Relationships are refined through honest communication and mutual respect."
Charles Wesley
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"The beloved dwells in the depths of your own heart."
Ibn Arabi
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"Relationships are mirrors; they show us who we truly are."
Ibn Arabi
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"If we live among people who are envious and malevolent, we are necessarily affected by their hatred and envy."
Spinoza
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"Conflict between people arises from inadequate ideas about their common interests."
Spinoza
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"Understanding others requires us first to understand ourselves."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Relationships are the crucible in which human character is refined."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"You are seeking yourself through others."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"I am a mirror. I reflect the one who looks into me."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Words are not enough when hearts truly understand each other."
Teresa of Avila
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"In isolation from others, the human being cannot achieve true happiness."
Spinoza
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"Every person you meet is a teacher if you are willing to learn."
Ibn Arabi
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"In the reflection of another, you see yourself more clearly."
Ibn Arabi
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"I have become alive because I have loved."
Hafiz
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"The heart knows no logic. It only knows love and fear, and fear is just love that lost its way."
Hafiz
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"Your heart is not open, so I close my mouth and wait."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Envy is love, insofar as it so affects a man that he is glad at another's lack of power to do good."
Spinoza
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"Everybody is somebody's somebody."
Mother Teresa
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"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men, and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel all their joys and sorrows."
Mother Teresa
"Relationships are mirrors reflecting the soul."
Meister Eckhart