Relationships Quotes

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

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"We are each other's mirrors; what we see depends on how we look."
Hilda Doolittle
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"I prefer one moment of true connection to years of hollow company."
Hilda Doolittle
"Relationships are mirrors that show us ourselves."
Wallace Stevens
"The real business of life is trying to understand one another."
Fannie Hurst
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"My heart has a terrible habit of being the first to break."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"An animal is a creature whom we feed, clothe, and shelter in exchange for our society."
Marianne Moore
"We are shaped by what we love and what we resist."
Marianne Moore
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"Every conversation is a negotiation between two worlds."
William Carlos Williams
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"Relationships are mirrors in which we see ourselves more clearly."
Hart Crane
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"I wonder if it is cosmopolitan to like everybody I meet now."
Amy Lowell
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"Relationships deepen through honest communication and presence."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Relationships require the courage of honest presence."
Hilda Doolittle
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"We cannot live only for ourselves."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"We are all connected."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Relationships require honesty and vulnerability."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
"A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one."
Fannie Hurst
"We accept the love we think we deserve."
Fannie Hurst
"There is another loneliness that comes from being understood too well."
Marianne Moore
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"I have loved greatly; I have been loved; and I have experienced profound loneliness."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Relationships require vulnerability and honesty."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Relationships deepen when both people maintain their individual integrity."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Loneliness is not the absence of company, but the absence of understanding."
Amy Lowell
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"Relationships teach us what we cannot learn alone."
Amy Lowell
"Relationships are mirrors; we see in others what we refuse to acknowledge in ourselves."
Fannie Hurst
"Life is an affair of people, not of places."
Wallace Stevens
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"If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry."
O. Henry
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"A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets."
O. Henry
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"We are not islands; we are connected to everyone and everything around us."
Kate Chopin
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"The bonds we forge with others are the only true measure of our success."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"Where can I find a man who has forgotten women?"
Edna St. Vincent Millay