Hurt people hurt people. We are not being judgmental by separating ourselves from such people. But we should do so with compassion. Compassion is defined as a "keen awareness of the suffering of another coupled with a desire to see it relieved." Peop...
Can the purpose of a relationship be to trigger our wounds? In a way, yes, because that is how healing happens; darkness must be exposed before it can be transformed. The purpose of an intimate relationship is not that it be a place where we can hide...
We all are secret-keepers in our intimate relationships. We keep secrets from our partners about daily encounters, former lovers, true feelings about sex, friends, in-laws, finances, personal hopes, and worries about work, health, love, and life. It ...
The tremendous danger is that this belief - that genuine happiness comes only from pleasant feelings - becomes a strong motivation to stay closed to anything unpleasant. But by staying closed to all unpleasantness, we also stay closed to our own well...
I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.
You can close the city gates but not the mouths of men.
Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.
Relationships are where we humans get our greatest education.
For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.
A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.
Take responsibility and make a relationship the best it can be. We're all afraid of being hurt. Get rid of that fear. Be in the moment and enjoy the relationship - or you'll ruin it.
I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships.
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.
If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.
At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.
Being in all of my relationships, I'm even more confused than I've ever been, I don't know if you ever really understand relationships.
I'm finding that I tend to be one of those people who gets into very committed, long-term relationships, and then I really focus on that relationship and not so much myself.
The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.
