In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
I get excited about what the Holy Spirit is doing now through all the people he is refining and raising up all over this planet. I love connections and relationship and networking but it must be led by the Spirit.
When I am in a relationship, I give it my 100 per cent. But then, if it doesn’t work, you cannot help it. You cannot move ahead with something which isn’t working.
My parents and I didn’t speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.
The only secret behind why SidNaaz is still a thing is because it is genuine. We shared a pure relationship. I think people connect to that. The way he adored and showered love on me, I really felt nice about it. We both had same sort of feelings for each other. It was very cute.
I don’t believe in stardom; it is like a relationship. Today it is with you, tomorrow it might go to someone else.
Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship to be truly happy? Maybe. But you know what? That’s fine with me.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one’s past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.
The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
It’s actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you’re playing and then letting go, just being there.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
It is important to have face-to-face meetings, so when the players have things on their mind we talk. It is important to have a good relationship with your players. If they like you and love you – and the other way around – you will be successful.
When I work, my first relationship with people is professional.
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.
The main relationship in the whole series was the one between the camera and Fleabag. I had to convince myself that whoever was watching on the other side of the camera was instantly complicit with Fleabag and instantly a friend of hers.
You ask for your audience’s investment in your music; you’re in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on.
You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.
If you love someone – like, truly love someone – I don’t think that ever goes away. But what does change is your perspective on the relationship and the dynamic.
The biggest piece is my family… From watching films like The Godfather on our dining room wall, to having a great relationship with my sibling. Or going on weekend trips with our cousins to the beach and eating all day… it’s been a crazy childhood; a ‘bohemian one’.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
I always say that my biggest fear in a relationship is cheating, and people giving up.
I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I’m growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things – being tenacious about it.
It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.
The key to a good relationship is how you repair the stress fractures.
Every married man who wants peace in the relationship, should learn the trick to avoid that one question – ‘How is the food?’
Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.
I think you function much better when you trust people and when you’ve got a sort of relationship where you can develop ideas within a framework.
Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes – at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
People often ask us what we get by our frequent travel to countries. I want to tell them we do not travel to have fun; we travel to build our relationship with other countries, and it is because of our ties with these countries that we were able to rescue 7,000 people from Yemen.
A man’s respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
There is not love where there is no will.
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
That’s the awful thing about dating. Tight underwear. We would all like to be in a big bra and pants and when you are in a secure relationship you can do that.
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
Who cares about the clouds when we’re together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
Two halves don’t make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn’t doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.
No partner in a love relationship… should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I’ll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities.
I feel super-proud of my team and myself; like, I have an all-star MVP team. They’re so sweet, and they love me, and I love them. It’s a very respectful, lovely relationship.
In the periods of my life when I’ve had least contact with the Church, I’ve always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it’s a relationship; it has good days and bad days.
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
I definitely don’t think I could be in an open relationship.
Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
When it comes to our relationship with loneliness, specifically, it’s important to understand how our relative introversion or extroversion informs our preference for social interaction.
One of the true pleasures of my life has been the work of John Steinbeck. He was one of the people who turned my life around. I had no direct relationship with him, unfortunately.
A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.
My relationship with my dad will always be strained, but that just goes to show, I guess, that I’m doin’ a pretty good job of bein’ myself, and bein’ a rebel.
I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people’s pleasure. It’s an adventure.
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.
I’m estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It’s probably responsible for the man I’ve become.
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
I have a complicated relationship with the zoo; maybe everyone does. It’s so wonderful and so sad.
You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.
I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It’s easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.
Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
