interpersonal relationships quotes

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

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.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.