The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

The training is a set of interpersonal interactions that lead to emotional and intellectual experiences that provide a circumstance and an intrument for self awareness, self observation and reflection on the circumstances of the subject trainee, both in his individual life and as a social being.

It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness, yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this assumption.

If film making is magic, there’s a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you‘re doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication.

Relationships don’t thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

If you don’t like yourself, you’re going to have a really hard time getting along with anyone else.

Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

Authority is not a quality one person ‘has,’ in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

I’m more interested in interpersonal relationships – between lovers families, siblings. That’s why I write about how we treat each other.

Why can’t we all just get along?

Work on your relationships… Relationships need renewal or they die.

If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.

Willpower determines success in business, interpersonal relationships, health, whatever it is. All the activities in your life, success and failure in them, are dependent upon your ability to manifest will.

You’re talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.

In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

Private victories precede public victories.

We say to others only what we need to hear

When it comes to my interpersonal relationships with men, of course, a lifetime of abuse vastly affected everything I did. I always came from a place of abuse, actually wanting, welcoming, and accepting it because that was my language. It never seemed strange to me.

It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

If friends disappoint you over and over, that’s in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren’t going to change simply because you want them to.

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.