#relatio

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#among #barometer #call #form #human

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? ↗

— Elizabeth Janeway

#biology #connections #family #good #growing

When you hold a grudge, you want someone else’s sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#hurt #inspirational #life #relationships #sorry

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#american #american people #before #calling #cries

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#death #experience #relationships #death

I can tell if two people are in love by how they hold each other’s hands, and how thick their sanitation gloves are. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #funny-quotes #gloves #holding-hands #humor

Jill had three basic statements about life, 1. It is your life, usually with some added social commentary. 2. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things. 3. No one ever said that life was fair. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#family #friendship #home #inspitational #life

I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#across #always #artistic #board #clues

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. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#friendship

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. ↗

— Milton Glaser

#desire #element #even #grows #independent