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It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

~ George Dennison Prentice

George Dennison Prentice Human Relations

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.

~ Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Human Relations

One kind word can warm three winter months.

~ Japanese Saying

Japanese Saying Human Relations

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10 000 people. The hardest is with one.

~ Joan Baez

Joan Baez Human Relations

The opinions which we hold of one another our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent save in appearance but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

~ Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust Human Relations

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

~ Maggie Kuhn

Maggie Kuhn Human Relations

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity which is what we express by the word Good Breeding.

~ Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison Human Relations

When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson Human Relations

When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone.

~ Old Saying

Old Saying Human Relations

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation a mental or physical barter to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

~ W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden Human Relations

When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell Human Relations

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance ' and I have found his words true.

~ Frank Swinnerton

Frank Swinnerton Human Relations

I am a part of all that I have met.

~ Lord Tennyson

Lord Tennyson Human Relations

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.

~ Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust Human Relations

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.

~ George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw Human Relations

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

~ Albert Camus

Albert Camus Human Relations

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not be endured with patient resignation.

~ Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell Human Relations

The fact is that the possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations.

~ Lewis Hastings

Lewis Hastings Human Relations

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen Human Relations

Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce Human Relations

In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create as it were a new picture a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest for them we in a strange sense wish to and do start life anew.

~ Ann N. Bridge

Ann N. Bridge Human Relations

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson Human Relations

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

~ Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm Human Relations

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

~ Goethe

Goethe Human Relations

Each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen Human Relations

We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time through some experience that we have of our companion or through some remark that he passes he stands for a moment close to us as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

~ Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer Human Relations

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.

~ Ken Keyes

Ken Keyes Human Relations

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

~ Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer Human Relations

I was born modest not all over but in spots.

~ Mark Twain

Mark Twain Human Relations

A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.

~ Edgar Watson Howe

Edgar Watson Howe Human Relations

When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.

~ Arthur Bryant

Arthur Bryant Human Relations

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.

~ Goethe

Goethe Human Relations

See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little.

~ Pope John Xxiii

Pope John Xxiii Human Relations

The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche Human Relations

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.

~ Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Human Relations

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

~ Robert Frost

Robert Frost Human Relations

I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others if not more.

~ Edward Noyes Westcott

Edward Noyes Westcott Human Relations

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Human Relations

Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

~ Helen Keller

Helen Keller Human Relations

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.

~ Japanese Proverb

Japanese Proverb Human Relations
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