Living Together Quotes

• Living together is an art.

  William Pickens

  Relationship, Art, Community

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• The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

  A. P. Herbert

  Funny, Life, Anniversary

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• Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

  Bill Murray

  Dog, Cat, Sacrifice

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• When there's love enough you can stand anything. When there isn't, you can stand nothing. Living together every day you find out a lot you didn't know, and love can't keep still. It's got to grow or die.

  Kate Langley Bosher

  Together, And Love, Enough

  Kate Langley Bosher (1910). “Mary Cary "frequently Martha,"”

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• There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Political, Understanding

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• Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

  Quentin Crisp

  Opportunity, Rude, Motive

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• One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Imagination, Worry, Together

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.100, U of Minnesota Press

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• In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.

  John Hume

  Fashion, Class, House

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• On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

  Ignazio Silone

  School, Men, Civilization

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• Do not believe that living together before marriage guarantees the future. By burning certain stages, you risk burning love itself. Time needs to be respected gradually, just like the expressions of love.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Believe, Expression, Risk

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• Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and more primitive. The woman has her own way: feminine, softer, a little more civilized, more subdued. But the situation is the same. Now psychologists are talking about marriage as an intimate enmity. And that's what it has proved to be. Two enemies are living together pretending to be in love, expecting the other to give love; and the same is being expected by the other. Nobody is ready to give - nobody has it. How can you give love if you don't have it?

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Fighting, Men

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• I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

  Vincent Nichols

  Communication, Mean, Thinking

  "Facebook and MySpace can lead children to commit suicide, warns Archbishop Nichols" by Jonathan Wynne-Jones, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 1, 2009.

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• The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together!

  William Lyon Phelps

  Art, Together, Art Is

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More”, p.115, Read Books Ltd

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• Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Art, Together

  "Pope Francis talks language of love with couples on Valentine's Day" By Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. February 14, 2014.

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• Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

  John Gay

  Mother, Thinking, Should Have

  'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) act 1, sc. 8

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• Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Strong, Freedom, Ties

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• I see prenuptial agreements as a positive - not only from a professional standpoint, but from a personal one as well. I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.

  Laura Wasser

  Thinking, People, Expectations

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to leave the country. It's part of an attitude toward the abolition of slavery which says America should not be a slave society, but it can never be a multiracial society. You can never have free black and white people living together.

  Eric Foner

  Country, Attitude, Black And White

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• When you look at how men and women are living together, there are two processes at work. One, women are rising in the middle class; their earning potential is rising compared to men. It has been underway for 100 years, and nothing is going to stop it. On the other hand, women are denied iconic positions of power - equity partnerships law firms, Hollywood salaries.

  Stephen Marche

  Men, Hands, Years

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Fighting and arguing amongst brothers are normal. Living together can also cause disagreements. I don't think it will work if there's none.

  Seungri

  Brother, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• Whatever happens... men, women and children have to be prepared to put other people first and thereby create the miracle of the species which is people living together in harmony and putting other people first, before themselves.

  Bob Maguire

  Children, Men, People

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• In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Country, Husband

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.61, Advaita Ashrama

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• For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Together, Way, Humans

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.235, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Seasteads are a technology for anybody to form an alternative community based on their unique values - for communities to organize themselves however they want. Seasteads are their chance to demonstrate their vision can work. All that matters is that people can create, join, and leave seasteads voluntarily. As long as people can choose among seasteads, the best ways of living together will prosper, and the ones that people don't like will fail.

  Joe Quirk

  Unique, Technology, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

  Arthur Helps

  Love, Country, Men

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.114

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