Relate Quotes
832 Relate quotes by 706 unique authors
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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?
— Pema Chodron
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We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important…
— Maeve Binchy
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The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of…
— Dalai Lama
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A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is…
— Karen Armstrong
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She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates…
— Paulo Coelho
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Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental…
— Charles Baudelaire
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When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this…
— David Hume
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One of the best things you can relate to is a detailed story.
— Lisi Harrison
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And yet I know I am too young, that we're too young, for me to live my life only as it relates to you. If…
— Megan McCafferty
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When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.
— Mary Roach
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I'm related to people I don't relate to.
— Bill Watterson
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Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that…
— Jane Austen
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When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the…
— Thomas Moore
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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
— Martin Buber
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Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared.…
— Jean Webster
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In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality, the…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that…
— Paul Ricoeur
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We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person...so…
— Natsuki Takaya
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Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader…
— Lois Duncan
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Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)
— Stephen Levine
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The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary.…
— Howard Zinn
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Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.
— Charles Dickens
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