All existence is coexistence.
-Martin Heidegger

To "be" means to be related.
-Alred Korzybski

Everything exists
in relation to other things.
-Stewart W. Holmes
and Chimyo Horioko

The first and only relationship we really have
is that with the divine - the universe -
they are one and the same thing.
-Shaun de Warren

When the consciousness of unity and oneness with all life faded,
the phenomenon of "relationships" came into being.
-John Randolph Price

All our life is relationship.
-Swami Rama

It's your relationships with other people
that give value to life.
-Wilhelm von Humboldt

The quality of your life
is the quality of your relationships.
-Anthony Robbins

Understanding is what makes relationships.

-Hadrat 'Ali

Ideal relationship is based on giving.
-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

All relationship is soul-building.
-James Hillman

Real relationship is to see ourselves in all beings,
and all beings within ourselves.
-David Frawley

Before you can have proper relationships
you must have Inner Harmony with yourself.
-Imre Vallyon

All of us experience who we are

in the context of our relationships.

-Nathaniel Branden

The quality of your relationship with yourself
determines the quality of your relationship with everything else.
-Robert Holden

My closest relation is with myself.
-Terence

The primary relationship in life is the one you have with yourself.
It is the first and most intimate.
-Cheri Huber

The most profound relationship we will ever have
is the one with ourselves.
-Shirley MacLaine

Every relationship is ultimately with yourself.

-Strephon Kaplan Williams

Relationship is a process of self-revelation.
-Bruce Lee

A relationships is like a mirror
that show you images of who you are
in that particular setting.
-Gordana Biernat

Relationship is surely the mirror
in which you discover yourself.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

Everything depends on our relationship with others.
How we treat others will determine how others treat us.
How others treat us will determine how we see ourselves,
and how we see ourselves will determine who we are.
-Sharon Gannon

The meeting of two personalities
is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction both are transformed.
-Carl Jung

The essence of relationship
is that in the encounter both persons are changed.
-Rollo May

The great key to relating
is to understand what a relationship is telling you,
then accept it.
-Lyn Birkbeck

We are negative in our relationships
with that which is a higher potential than we are;
and we are positive in our relationships
with that which has a lower potential.
This is a relationship which is in a perpetual state of flux,
and varies at every point at which
we make our innumerable contacts with our environment.
-The Kabbalah

Every person must answer your purpose
according to the postion you take before him.
If you are a teacher to him, he will be your pupil,
If you are his friend, he will become your chum,
if you are his rival, he will become your competitor.
Decide, therefore, fully beforehand in what relation
that person should be to you,
and act accordingly to him.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Guard carefully that thin thread that connects two souls
in whatever relationship or capacity.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

No matter how close two human beings may be,
there is always a gulf between them which only love can bridge,
and that only from hour to hour.
-Hermann Hesse

Enjoy each beautiful meeting you have
as a moment of grace.
Let yourself be enlightened, vivified and strengthened
by their presence.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

When we meet others,
their imperfections and shortcomings should be overlooked,
while their good qualities should be given special attention.
-Christian Larson

Treat people as if they are what they ought to be,
and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Find the light in each other
and just fan it.
-Alice O. Howell

If you would learn the secret of right relations
look only for the divine in people and things
and leave the rest to God.
-J. Allen Boone

Souls unite at the meeting of a glance.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

This person is like a vase,
filled with a precious essence
that plunges you into a state of wonder;
they inspire you, broaden your horizons
and reveal to you the beauty of heaven and earth.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships
than creating together.
-Steven R. Covey

You think because you understand one
you must also understand two,
because one and one make two.
But you must also understand 'and.'
Djalal ad-Din Rumi

In love the paradox occurs
that two beings become one and yet remain two.
-Erich Fromm

We never love a person,
but only qualities.
-Blaise Pascal

We don't love qualities;
we love a person;
sometimes by reason of their defects
as well as their qualities.
-Jacques Maritain

You don't love because: you love despite;
not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
-William Faulkner

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
-Pablo Neruda

When I relate to you I will relate to you as yourself.
I will take you as you are for what you are.
I will not limit you, myself, or our relationship
to the narrowness of types, categories and formulas.
When I am with you, I am with you.
-John Sandbach

Living together is an art.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

Harmony between people is never granted -
it has to be conquered indefinitely.
-Simone de Beauvoir

The nearer you come in relation with a person,
the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Every relationship
has its optimal distance.
-Carl Jung

Once we accept that even between the closest human beings
infinite distances continue to exist,
we can live wonderfully side by side.
As long as we succeed in loving the distance between one another,
each of us can see each other as whole against the sky.
-Rainer Maria Rilke

Lend yourself to others,
but give yourself to yourself.
-Michel de Montaigne

I am one with you and being one with you
Is being and knowing what I am and know.
-Wallace Stevens

To love someone
means to see him as God intended him.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

All lovers live by longing, and endure:
Summon a vision and declare it pure.
-Theodore Roethke

For this is the hardest of all;
to close the open hand out of love.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

I know what I have given you.
I do not know what you have received.
-Antonio Porchia

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is -
"let there be truth between us two forevermore."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Between out two lives
there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
-Matsuo Basho

Finding the center of strength within ourselves
is in the long run the best contribution
we can make to our fellow man.
-Rollo May

Only when one is connected to one's inner core
is one connected to others.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To grow in the spirit
is the greatest help one can give to other,
for then something flows out naturally
to those around that helps them.
-Mirra Alfassa, "The Mother"

You must think of your partner as a precious being,
and realise that it is through you
that he can become vibrant and beautiful,
but only if you link him to the Source.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Blessed is the influence
of one true, loving human soul on another.
-George Eliot

We are alone, yes,
but inside this solitude we are brothers,
helping each other go forward without stumbling.
-Elie Wiesel

In friendship or in love,
the two side by side raise hands together
to find what one cannot reach alone.
-Kahlil Gibran

I'll lift you and you lift me,
and we'll ascend together.
-John Greenleaf Whittier

Everything comes down to relationships,
which is learning to love unconditionally.
-Shaun de Warren

Love everyone unconditionally
...including yourself.
-Ken Keyes

Love brings us into right relation
with all persons and all things.
-Christian Larson

Universal love
is the only possible standard for human relations.
-Simeon ben Azzai

I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source.
I salute that Source in you.
Let us work together for unity and love.
-Mohandas Gandhi