"Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius."

Disraeli, Isaac on genius   

"Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple."

Ceran, C. W. on genius
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"Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on genius
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"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."

Crisp, Quentin on relationship
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"The Inside-Out approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self -- with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves."

Covey, Stephen R. on relationship
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"Constant togetherness is fine -- but only for Siamese twins."

Billings, Victoria on relationship
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"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."

Benjamin, Walter on relationship
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"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

Croft, Roy on love
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"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."

Crisp, Quentin on relationship
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"Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you."

Murdock, Mike on relationship
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"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands."

Penney, Alexandria on relationship
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"It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, bit it is the little differences that make them interesting."

Ruthman, Todd on relationship
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"It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them."

Storr, Anthony on relationship
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"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."

Winkler, Henry on relationship
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"If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times."

Williams, Montel on relationship
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"We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on relationship
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"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take."

Robbins, Anthony on relationship
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"There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship."

Murdoch, Iris on relationship
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"Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise."

Lerner, Gerda on relationship
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"One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on relationship   

"It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself."

Friedan, Betty on relationship
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"The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions."

Eliot, George on relationship   

"In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same."

Einstein, Albert on relationship
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"It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal."

Easwaran, Eknath on relationship
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"The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike."

Duras, Marguerite on relationship
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"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"We are always getting ready to live, but never living."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on character
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"The man who can make hard things easy is the educator."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on teacher
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"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap."

Ozick, Cynthia on madness
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"Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"The highest compact we can make with our fellow is --Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anger
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"Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves."

Russell, Bertrand on conventionality   

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new."

Thoreau, Henry David on conventionality   

"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."

Aristotle on madness
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"And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths."

Artaud, Antonin on madness
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"In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!"

Ballard, J. G. on madness
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"Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane."

Miller, Henry on madness
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