{"quotes":[{"text":"What we do to others, we do to ourselves.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["interpersonal-relationships","self-growth","socialism"],"id":3986,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"The closest one person can get to another is through silence.","author":"Bohumil Hrabal","tags":["intamacy","interpersonal-relationships","love","quietness","silence"],"id":44962,"author_id":"Bohumil+Hrabal"},{"text":"Unhealthy relationships are most commonly lacking in the most essential of ingredient: healthy communication.","author":"Asa Don Brown","tags":["communication","interpersonal-relationships","relationships","unhealthy"],"id":53370,"author_id":"Asa+Don+Brown"},{"text":"Developing strong interpersonal relationships by creating lasting connections instead of just passing acquaintances will take your business to a new level.","author":"Farshad Asl","tags":["business","developing-leadership-skills","interpersonal-relationships","long-lasting-connections","success"],"id":81552,"author_id":"Farshad+Asl"},{"text":"Playing nice' comes naturally when our neuroception detects safety and promotes physiological states that support social behavior. However, pro-social behavior will not occur when our neuroception misreads the environmental cues and triggers physiological states that support defensive strategies. After all, 'playing nice' is not appropriate or adaptive behavior in dangerous or life-threatening situations. In these situations, humans - like other mammals - react with more primitive neurobiological defense systems. To create relationships, humans must subdue these defensive reactions to engage, attach, and form lasting social bonds. Humans have adaptive neurobehavioral systems for both pro-social and defensive behaviors.","author":"Stephen W. Porges","tags":["complex-ptsd","dangerous-people","defensive","distrust","fear","interpersonal-relationships","neurophysiology","polyvagal-theory","social","triggers","trust","unsafe-people"],"id":108844,"author_id":"Stephen+W.+Porges"},{"text":"If you happen to hold that human consciousness is no more than the epiphenomenon, or secretion, of our individual brains then you are more or less trapped in your own skull. But if consciousness is open, if it can partake in a more global form of being, if it can merge with the natural world and with other beings, then, indeed, it may be possible to drop, for a time, the constraints of one's personal worldview and see reality through the eyes of others.","author":"F. David Peat","tags":["consciousness","empathy","interpersonal-relationships"],"id":140181,"author_id":"F.+David+Peat"},{"text":"I started crying when the group [therapy] was over because the last thing we did upset me - we all held a piece of the same cloth, leaned back and supported each other's weight. I couldn't do it. I bent my legs and elbows and stood very firm, yet . . .I needed to feel supported, as I do in life, but I can't let myself be, and I pretend not to need that support.","author":"Carol Lee","tags":["anxiety","ask-for-help","asking-for-help","asking-for-help-from-others","counterdependency","fear","group-therapy","interpersonal-relationships","relying-on-others"],"id":236933,"author_id":"Carol+Lee"},{"text":"Just because you have baggage doesn't mean you have to lug it around.","author":"Richie Norton","tags":["addiction","airplane","airport","apple","around","bag","baggage","because","depression","doesn-t","entrepreneur","entrepreneurial","entrepreneurship","fear","fun","have","humor","innovation","inspiration","interpersonal-relationships","it","just","leadership","love","loving","lug","luggage","management","mean","motivation","phone","pride","procrastination","quote","quotes","relationship","relationships","science","self-esteem","startup","startup-life","tech","technology-addiction","to","you"],"id":247660,"author_id":"Richie+Norton"},{"text":"Thomas's mistake, like most of the behavior he leaked into the world, had been avoidable: to join another human being in a situation that virtually demanded unscripted, spontaneous conversation, and thus to risk total moral and emotional dissolution. Death by conversation, and all that.","author":"Ben Marcus","tags":["conversation","interpersonal-relationships","small-talk"],"id":258975,"author_id":"Ben+Marcus"},{"text":"Failure is becoming someone who needs others to fail.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["failure","interpersonal-relationships","others"],"id":311800,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}