Quotes about Relationships
We are most alive when we're in love.
- John Updike
but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.
- John Updike
Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.
- John Updike
Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.
- John Updike
The good ones develop give. In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
- John Updike
Love has its own ethics, which the deliberating will irrevocably offends.
- John Updike
Sincerity may not help us make friends, but it will help us keep them.
- John Wooden
Abraham Lincoln. He once said that the best thing a man can do for his children is to love their mother.
- John Wooden
I remain convinced to this day that compassion like that—sincerely caring for your players and maintaining an active interest in their lives, concerns, and motivations—is one of the most important qualities a coach can have.
- John Wooden
There is also the professional mentor, a person whose success in his or her career can be a source of practical wisdom and inspiration. This success might be mea sured in material gain or far-reaching influence, or in lives touched and relationships fostered. These mentors can offer a model for good business, ethical practices, and effective work habits, and they often provide the motivation we need to seize whatever opportunities come our way.
- John Wooden
Your family is what counts, and you must always remember that as you get caught up in your own professional responsibilities.
- John Wooden
It is a hard message to swallow at first blush because it brings into question everything that we think we are, which for the most part seems to come from what we identify with, our bodies, our thoughts, our feelings, our relationships, our values, our work, our expectations of what is "supposed" to happen and how things are "supposed" to work out for me in order for me to be happy, our stories of where we came from and where we are going and of who we are.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn