Relationships Quotes

"Intersubjective experience shows that consciousness is fundamentally relational."

"The other person is not simply an object but another center of intentional consciousness."

"The other's consciousness is not inferred but directly encountered in intersubjective experience."

"Genuine understanding requires entering into the perspective of another consciousness."

"To understand others is to understand oneself."

"We understand ourselves and others only through the interpretation of lived experience."

"Society is held together by shared meanings and mutual understanding."

"We find meaning through participation in human community."

"The true dialectic is not a monologue of solitary thought; it is a dialogue between I and Thou."

"Relationships are the foundation of society."

"The self is constructed through relationships."

"Commerce binds humanity together in mutual dependence."

"The most important relationship is the one with society itself."

"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."

"One of the deepest principles of our nature is the longing to be appreciated and understood."

"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."

"Man's essence is contained in his relationships with others."

"The man who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and who associates with the ignorant is left alone."

"Every relationship has a power dynamic that must be recognized."

"Relationships flourish when built on mutual respect and shared purpose."

"Relationships deepen through the struggle to understand another's perspective."

"Without support, the noblest sentiments cannot survive."

"Marriage is useful in affording a definite object for the exertion of the protective instinct."

"Relationships are the threads that weave meaning into life."

"Relationships demand the courage to be known and to know another."

"Not lack of love, but lack of friendship makes unhappy marriages."

"The life of the individual flows on in a stream of contagion from him who immediately precedes; the world runs as it runs because all men are made of one clay."

"Self-realisation is possible only through the realisation of others"

"Women possess unique spiritual qualities essential to social reconstruction."