Relationships Quotes

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

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"Belonging is the deepest human need."
Eudora Welty
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"The greatest stories are about human connection."
Eudora Welty
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"Connection is what makes us human."
Eudora Welty
"A person is not a thing to be managed, but a mystery to be respected."
Robertson Davies
"The greatest gift you can give another person is your full attention."
Robertson Davies
"In the end all we have is each other."
Cormac McCarthy
"We are all searching for connection, yet we often build walls to protect ourselves from it."
Carson McCullers
"We all hunger for connection, yet intimacy terrifies us in equal measure."
Carson McCullers
"The most profound human connections often occur without words."
Carson McCullers
"To be seen for who you truly are is the greatest gift one human can give another."
Carson McCullers
"We are all searching for the person who will understand us completely."
Carson McCullers
"In the embrace of another, we briefly escape our fundamental isolation."
Carson McCullers
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"There is something in the deep places of the heart that cries out for understanding."
Eudora Welty
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"We are born into connection, yet we spend our lives seeking it."
Eudora Welty
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"We are all connected by invisible threads of experience."
Eudora Welty
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"The greatest gift we can give is our full attention."
Eudora Welty
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"Relationships are laboratories where we experiment with vulnerability and risk being known."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"Betrayal often comes from those closest to us because proximity provides opportunity."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred."
Margaret Atwood
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"You cannot avoid flattery by sincerity."
Margaret Atwood
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"We teach people how to treat us."
Margaret Atwood
"Relationships are the richest investments we can make"
Robertson Davies
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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 a responsibility for the deeds and conduct of others."
Flannery O'Connor
"In the end we are all just looking for someone to walk beside us in the dark."
Cormac McCarthy
"Your relationships are your life. Everything else is just details."
Cormac McCarthy
"If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful woman has passed into the world of phantoms, and because you love her with all your heart and soul, then you have missed one of the most poignant experiences of life."
Carson McCullers
"She could feel how the heart of the man who stood beside her was knocking with the same wild rhythm as her own."
Carson McCullers
"All connection begins with recognition of our common loneliness."
Carson McCullers
"The greatest story ever told is the story of connection."
Carson McCullers
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"Relationships between people are always mysterious."
Eudora Welty