Relational Quotes

I'm a very observational storyteller, and I'm always relational - a lot of stories stem from relationships, whether it's me with my husband, me with my mom or my siblings.

The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to the dynamic of the gift, so to speak.

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.

I have always been more interested in persons than in people.

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.

What women really want is opportunity and the freedom to love and accept all aspects of womanhood - the intellectual, spiritual, professional, biological and relational dimensions of who we are.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.

In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.

There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.