In reality, relationships that are successful tend to take the attitude, 'How can I help you?' 'How can I enrich your life?' 'How can I be a better husband to you,' if it's a marriage.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect.

What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

Love and friendship are really the key, I believe, to a relationship - although I can't claim to be an expert!

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

If you want to keep a relationship, you must nurture them with love.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

The fundamental thing for anybody, any relationship or any expedition or anything is communication.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

The good life is built with good relationships.

It's not just the number of friends you have, and it's not whether or not you're in a committed relationship. It's the quality of your close relationships that matters.

Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection.

Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking at them in the eye, leading to a solid connection and foundational trust.

There is a very thin line between relationship and friendship.

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

Love, friendship, networking - these are all critical connections and the foundation of a healthy, happy life.

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

In business it's about people. It's about relationships.

It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they're physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.

A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.

Communication is extremely important in any relationship - it makes the relationship that much healthier.

For any relationship to survive, one needs excellent communication.

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

As Americans lose the wider face-to-face ties that build social trust, they become more dependent on romantic relationships for intimacy and deep communication and more vulnerable to isolation if a relationship breaks down.

A relationship succeeds when obstacles are met with communication and resolution. A relationship flourishes when we take the beloved as our teacher. Shared goals create a transformative, interwoven path.

In reality, relationships that are successful tend to take the attitude, 'How can I help you?' 'How can I enrich your life?' 'How can I be a better husband to you,' if it's a marriage.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

I have been in love, and it was a great feeling. It's when you are attracted to and feel affection for someone. You want to do things for that person. But only love isn't enough in a relationship - understanding and communication are very important aspects.

You like someone, you court each other, you get into a relationship. You're answerable to each other. Whereas, the non-answerability of dating, my God, I don't know if I would ever be able to.

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

Communication will bring understanding and understanding will cause harmonious mutual relationships which can establish peace and stability.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Spirituality is not a formula; it is not a test. It is a relationship. Spirituality is not about competency; it is about intimacy. Spirituality is not about perfection; it is about connection. The way of the spiritual life begins where we are now in the mess of our lives.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.

I think in modern communication studies, we put a lot of emphasis on our relationships and our family relationships. Our relationships with our parents, and our siblings. I felt that there was this gap in content about communication with people who are super close to you in your peer group.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

My experience of what a loving relationship is like rings true with a lot of people I meet. I have a theory that the people you meet, one way you choose them, is their suitability for you in that particular matter. Attitudes toward friendship and marriage are in many cases closely aligned.

A relationship is based on communication.

The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.

This relationship is going to be built on trust.

A lasting relationship isn't about marriage. It's about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.