“I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?”
Relationships are where theory meets practice. These quotes cover romance, communication, conflict, trust, and the daily work of maintaining a connection with another imperfect human being who is also trying to figure things out.
“Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.”
“I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?”
“I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.”
“I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.”
“We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
“I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.”
“Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries we know that. And this doesn't change anything.”
“The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.”
“There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.”
“As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.”
“What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.”
“And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.”
“And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.”
“In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.”
“But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.”
“I definitely think anything I'd be in now is a permanent relationship.”