Quotes Tagged "relationships"

Don't campaign that you do not need something, and then champion a complaint when what you campaigned for isn't available.

We should not use the worst to define us as a people, and we use not use the best to excuse the bullshit of the worst.

A man knows how to confront confrontation without being confrontational.

An arrival always follows a departure. To achieve a goal you must depart from something.

I came to the conclusion that Women are not bad, they only learned to play dirty like men, and now men learned to be dramatic like women.

If we shift as we age toward appreciating everyday pleasures and relationships rather than toward achieving, having, and getting, and if we find this more fulfilling, then why do we take so long to do it? Why do we wait until we’re old? The common view was that these lessons are hard to learn. Living is a kind of skill. The calm and wisdom of old age are achieved over time.

Truly loving people are uncommon. They are as uncommon as awake people. Our success in learning about love will directly correlate to our level of happiness. It is certainly worth persevering with the learning process which involves a great deal of honesty, introspection, and forgiveness. Even if we are the only one in the relationship on that path, it doesn’t matter. We will still be blessed with our own happiness and isn’t that the bottom line of what we all want? Our first responsibility is to create a happy life for ourselves. If the other person in the relationship learns to also value love, honesty, and forgiveness then the relationship will transform, usually slowly, into a strong connection which is good for the couple and others alike.

A philosophically informed vision helps us respond to reversals intelligently, not Impulsively, so that we can act to mitigate the situation, not aggravate it.

A common blunder that we make is that we often talk about people instead of talking with people.

DURING OUR LIFE JOURNEY, we are not here to see through each other; we are here to see each other through.

To remove thorns from the path of those who have filled our path with thorns - That is the summit of selfless love.

The Ramayana's message is not that we passively give in to Destiny, but that we gallantly stick to Duty.

Level-headed pragmatism in the face of destiny is the most empowering option in a dis- empowering situation.

Valuing relations over possessions is foundational for the sustenance of family, society, and humanity at large.

Emotions are the ornaments of life. But we need to choose the emotions that bring out our higher side, not our lower side.

Love is sometimes conveyed by expressing our emotions and sometimes by concealing them

We assign roles to all the people in our life in an attempt to master it. The roles can be reasonable or preposterous. Either way, when we realise that others do not agree to the terms of the role we have assigned to them, we get upset. Is it their fault? Surely, they are simply following their own dreams. What matters is that we love the dreamer of the dream. It matters that we love people. We mustn’t invent roles for others because we think it will make us happy. Who are we to invent such things? Can the tiny piece of seaweed tell the vast ocean what it must do? What wills to grow, will grow. What wills to flow, will flow.

Relationships always bring about the dissolution of our delusions.

Annabeth,” he said hesitantly, “in New Rome, demigods can live their whole lives in peace.” Her expression turned guarded. “Reyna explained it to me. But, Percy, you belong at Camp Half-Blood. That other life—” “I know,” Percy said. “But while I was there, I saw so many demigods living without fear: kids going to college, couples getting married and raising families. There’s nothing like that at Camp Half-Blood. I kept thinking about you and me…and maybe someday when this war with the giants is over…” It was hard to tell in the golden light, but he thought Annabeth was blushing. “Oh,” she said… “I’m sorry,” he said. “I just…I had to think of that to keep going. To give me hope. Forget I mentioned—” “No!” she said. “Gods, Percy, that’s so sweet.

We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.