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" Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. "

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" Having sisters is the best. I have a different relationship with each of them. I go to Kim for fashion advice, Khloe is always boy and family advice, and Kourtney is like another mother to me. "

" I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it is important to pay attention to the inner voice because it is the only way to discover your mission in life and the only way to develop the strength to break with whatever familial or cultural norms are preventing you from fulfilling your destiny. "

" Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life. "

" The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose. "

" If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. "

" I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens. "

" A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship. "

" Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. "

" All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you. "

Christopher McCandless

" Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I'm very close with them. "

" The relationship that tests/frustrates/irritates you the most actually is one of your greatest blessings. Why? Because it reveals to you the very beliefs/fears and false assumptions that most limit you. "

Robin S. Sharma

" Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last. "

Remy de Gourmont

" If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life. "

" When I discover who I am, I'll be free. "

" I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked. "

Gilbert Gottfried

" Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. "

" I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives. "

" I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. 'Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.' First of all, my girl is black: she's Jamaican. "

" No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate. "

" It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time. "

Keira Knightley

" My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character. "

" I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all. "

" I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. "

" It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process. "

" I always wanted to do a light-hearted entertainer, and 'Bruce Lee' is such a film. The brother-sister sentiment and the relationship between father and son will be very good. The comedy will be hilarious, but it is not a forced comedy. "

" My father was on the Judiciary Committee all 18 years. He had a good personal relationship with Jim Eastland. They probably didn't agree on practically anything, or very little, from a public policy standpoint. But they were willing to work through that to see what they could get done just because they knew each other and liked each other. "

" When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people. "

" I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent. "