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To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly ‘purely instrumental’ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

Trust is the first step to love.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Try to gather the strength to live as brother and sister after one or two children are born. This is essential for reaping the full benefit of spiritual practice and to make spiritual progress through mental restraint.

Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

Use romantic relationships to grow, not to lose yourself. Keep your priorities in order.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.

Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship.

We cannot focus upon the weaknesses of one another and evoke strengths. You cannot focus upon the things that you think they are doing wrong, and evoke things that will make you feel better. You've got to beat the drum that makes you feel good when you beat it. And when you do, you'll be a strong signal of influence that will help them to reconnect with who they are.

We have a family calendar and it's how everybody runs. In truth, there's no trick to balancing it. If you look at the calendar and you've seen you've gone ten days without a date night, you know you need to prioritize more.

We are reducing the number of relationships. We are slowly but surely consuming the massive reserves of energy that have been accumulating and are stored in the ecosystems.

We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone.

We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

What's the difference between sex and love?' Hmm. That's a good question. Hey, you interviewed Al Pacino. How'd he answer that?

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

We would not have to forgive people if we didn't judge them in the first place.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.

What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime.

What you want most you push away from you. You want more than you care to admit.

We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

When all is said and done, I'd never count the cost. It's worth all that's lost, just to see you smile.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

When choosing sexual partners, remember: Talent is not sexually transmittable.

When I met you you were oh so sweet, now you give me the bread and you take all the meat.

When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances.

When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.

When I wake you're never there, but when I sleep you're everywhere.

When I was in my twenties and just so sexually prolific, the first time I went to Machu Picchu, this guy, a spiritual teacher, says to me, "When you make love, you must be making love." I thought that was the greatest advice I had ever heard.

When we are in a truly loving relationship, we receive the gift of being known and accepted. We become more, not less, of who we are. We receive the space in which to bloom. This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.

When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we are sure to fail. We can only win when we proceed from wholeness.

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

When it's over for a woman, it's over. You're not getting an appeal.

When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.

When we sit, we open our own treasure house. Rather than do this, however, most of us first seek to find the treasures another person can provide. We calculate their value to us. When we approach relationships in this manner, we are coming as beggars, seeing the other as a source of supply. When we can enter a relationship with our treasure house already open, there is no end to the wonders we can find, both within and between ourselves and another.

When you are in relationship with people, in a thousand and one ways you are provoked, challenged, seduced. Again and again you come to know your pitfalls, your limitations, your anger, your lust, your possessiveness, your jealousy, your sadness, your happiness all moods come and go, you are constantly in a turmoil. But this is the only way to know who you are.

When you consciously decide to breathe more slowly and deeply, you alert your body to the fact that you want it to behave differently. You are not just changing your breathing pattern, you are making a full-body announcement that you are entering into a different relationship with your mind and your body.