Esther Perel
Psychotherapist, Author
"When we seek the gaze of another, it isn't always our partner we're turning away from, but the person we have ourselves become."
Partners quotes
Partners
222 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Roland Smith
Author
"A partner can encourage you, maybe even stop you from falling, but they can't get you to the top. That's entirely up to you."
Howard Hughes
Aviator, Businessman
"My father told me, never have partners."
Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
"Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Really, time is your soul mate."
Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist, Neurologist
"God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies"
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"I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey."
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"Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces."
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"Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound."
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"A peer relationship is one where the partners experience an affectionate, companionate coupledom. They are friends. They are the product of the egalitarian model; they are good life partners, but are often less sexual."
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"You never know your partner as well as you think."
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"all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear"
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"I will not reach my full potential as a man unless I find my partner."
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"There's something very full in knowing that your partner accepts you as is."
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"I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either."
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"You can do not just twice as much but 200 times as much when you have a good partner."
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"The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other."
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"To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change."
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"When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners."
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"The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant."
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"God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises."
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"Friends don't always make the best of business partners."
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"Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own."
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"So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children."
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"In most marriages, there is a contented partner and a restless one."
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"Mystery is truth's dancing partner."
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