„A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.“
Eckhart Tolle198
German writer 1948Related quotes
„A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.“
— Ned Vizzini, book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
„Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love“
— Erich Fromm German social psychologist and psychoanalyst 1900 - 1980
„I've learned from others' lives… What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public — keeping it as personal as it can be.“
— Salma Hayek Mexican-American actress and producer 1966
O interview (2003)
Context: I've learned from others' lives... What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public — keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real. I am suspicious of those who have to let the world know how much they love each other. It's a little sad when you have to brag about how much you love someone. That kind of declaration doesn't always reflect the moment of truth between two people who care deeply for each other. When that truth is there, you don't need others to know it. And when somebody truly loves you, you don't even need him or her to be affectionate. Affection is fantastic, but it doesn't necessarily mean there's love — and the public display of affection is often just a show.
„Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.“
— Sophie Kinsella, book Can You Keep a Secret?
Source: Can You Keep a Secret?
„In relationship there are always two types of person: one weaker and the other stronger one. It's never easier to live being as weaker one!“
— Chetan Bhagat Indian author, born 1974 1974
Source: Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition
„The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.“
— Emily Giffin American writer 1972
Source: Something Blue
„When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.“
— Deb Caletti American writer 1963
Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming
„In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.“
— Joseph Campbell American mythologist, writer and lecturer 1904 - 1987
Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
„A genuine revival means a trimming of personal lamps.“
— Theodore L. Cuyler American minister 1822 - 1909
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 521.
„My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.“
— Brian K. Vaughan American screenwriter, comic book creator 1976
Source: Y: The Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores
„A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.“
— Desmond Tutu South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner 1931
„In my experience, it takes only one person to have a successful relationship, and that's me.“
— Byron Katie American spiritual writer 1942
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
„The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.“
— Carl R. Rogers American psychologist 1902 - 1987
Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
„I saw us as coming from a source self, free of space and time, into this reality. The focus personality (or the self we know) focuses in this life, but is also composed of of other Aspects or parts of the source self that are latent within the psyche, though "alive" in other realities. These form the basic structure of the psyche from which the focus personality emerges. I call these "prime Aspects." A harmonious working relationship between these prime Aspects results in a well-balanced focus personality -- one that is reasonably happy, healthy, and creative.“
— Jane Roberts American Writer 1929 - 1984
Source: Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book (1976), p. 197
„First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.“
— Abraham Polonsky American politician 1910 - 1999
as quoted in Directing the Film, Ed Sherman, 1976.
„In some firms role relationships prescribed by the chart seemed to be of secondary importance to personal relationships between individuals.“
— Joan Woodward British sociologist 1916 - 1971
Source: Industrial Organization: Theory and practice, 1965, p. 24
