Quotes about Relationships

If you want to change the way you feel about people, you have to change the way you treat them.

This family business can be so stressful - difficult, damaged people showing up t spend time with other difficult, damanged people

One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people.

You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath.

So I practice the fifth Get: I get in touch with others. I tell my partner the truth about how crunchy I feel inside, how unevolved or vindictive. Or I pick up the three-hundred-pound phone and tell a close friend. Or I get in the car and head to where one of my precious communities has gathered. This might be a park, my church, my Sunday school room; with hikers, sober people, townsfolk.

I have a quote taped to my office wall from an anonymous source that says, 'Love is hard. Love is ... seeing the darkness in another person and defying the impulse to jump ship.

We won't love you if you're perfect.

marketers have turned advertising into an interactive process. Using relationships and frequency and permission

Waiting isn't easy, which is precisely why it is so effective when engaging with other people.

The best marketers are farmers, not hunters. Plant, tend, plow, fertilize, weed, repeat. Let someone else race around after shiny objects.

Your best customers become your new salespeople.

God didn't give us His Word to use like a weapon or some kind of Hallmark card we can pass across the fence and keep some distance. It is a weapon, but one designed for use against our enemy, not against our sisters. It is meant for encouragement, not for pat answers in the midst of real pain. Just because something is true doesn't mean you must voice that truth in all circumstances.