Quotes About Tension In Relationships

#1. There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

Ralph Fiennes

#2. How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships.

Tom Robbins

#3. Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there's no denying that individuation and separation are inevitable parts of loving relationships that become the site of tension.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.

Khaled Hosseini

#6. I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.

Katarina Witt

#7. If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.

Scott Cohen

#8. Be patient and wait for due harvest.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. I have a lot of friends who are around. I'm having a wonderful time in my life now with my platonic relationships with men and women, because when that sexual tension is off the requirement of the interplay, then you get to who the people really are, and to yourself.

Shirley Maclaine

#10. Who scorns his own life is lord of yours.

Seneca.

#11. I didn't know what I was doing, didn't know what he was doing to me, but there was no doubt he made my day better by simply being.

Jay Crownover

#12. I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions.

Jane Jacobs

#13. When a man destroys his fellow, people say that such a one is a murderer. When one set in authority destroys, it is said that this one is a faithful judge.

Kahlil Gibran

#14. Sure, sure, I'm as sure as Day that you all are a great people. You all are son of "Author". Author in Upper-case is "He", who takes care of each one of us.

Ajay Pandey

#15. Interactive management requires open, honest, and tension-free relationships with others. You do this by negotiating relationships and sharing, so that everybody wins.

Tony Alessandra

#16. The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.

William Safire

#17. You can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands ...

John Geddes

#18. Correctly identifying a negative emotion takes the brain out of fight-or-flight mode and into problem-solving mode, out of tension, anger and confusion and into ease, calm and clarity.

Sam Owen

#19. But that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.

Erich Maria Remarque

#20. Getting to know someone is like putting a never-ending puzzle together. We fit the smallest pieces first and we get to know ourselves better in the process.

Iain Reid

#21. Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

John C. Maxwell