You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
I think the most important thing is being in healthy relationships.
You're born and then you're on your own, you start having relationships, you're developing relationships to the world and your wider community, and then disappointing things happen.
The fastest way to improve your relationships is to make others feel important in every way possible.
In many relationships that I've had people just try to own the other person.
When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.
we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in their chosen profession, and in their relationships, live longer and in better health, enjoy a better chance of surviving postoperative shock, and are less prone to depression and suicide.
We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.
Lyrically, I feel like there are things I always go back to, having to do with relationships.
I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real connections. It's the long-term online friendships and relationships that start to get a little hairy.
My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
The big change that's happened for me in terms of my own life and how outsidership is reflected in my work is that I used to feel extraordinarily isolated in my life as I was trying to figure out who I was and how to have intimate relationships. And so my central characters also were isolated and usually in quite a bit of pain.
I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
Don't over analyze your relationships.
Sydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory.
Relationships are a lot like yard sales. They look really fun from a couple hundred feet away, but eventually you realize it's just a bunch of crap you don't need.
Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.
God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
I love movies, but I think people think relationships are supposed to go how they go in movies. The ones I like are the ones that represent life.