"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement...all success... all achievement in real life grows." ~ Ben Stein
There are two things a real man likes -- danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Only the threatened attack. ~ Course in Miracles
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. ~ Michel de Montaigne
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t overanaylze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can one be nurtured by genuineness. ~ Leo Buscaglia, Love: What Life Is All About
If you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't. Because it just doesn't ever work. It's too much to ask of them to be true. ~ Stevie Nicks
The great question... which I have not been able to answer despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' ~ Sigmund Freud
They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other. ~ Emile Zola
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To me the concept of the "beloved" conveys not just a nice, cozy, warm relationship with God, but one that is joyous, uplifting and exhilarating because it is a recognition of who I am. ~ Nina Yfiry
No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the "give" part. ~ Bob Burg
