Relational Challenges Quotes

One of my half-sisters just couldn't deal with it. I think she saw me as someone she had a hard time relating to. We're super-close now, but I probably came home from Europe with weird opinions and attitudes and weird clothing. I probably looked so different to her, and I couldn't show up for things she would have liked me to. My life picked up speed, and I couldn't really stop the momentum.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

I get along very well with people - that's both an advantage and a disadvantage.

To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

Whether it be with your parents or your siblings, everyone is dealing with different kinds of things.

It's hard lovin' folks sometimes, isn't it?

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.

I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.

I'm drawn again and again to relationships between people who really, really want to connect and just can't get out of their own way to do it.