Det finns många inspirerande visdomsord och kloka citat om relationer. Här har vi samlat flera av dem, både på svenska och engelska.
En av hemligheterna bakom att leva ett lyckligt liv är att ha djupa och meningsfulla relationer med andra människor. Det har forskning visat. Personer med nära relationer med andra människor är både lyckligare, friskare och lever längre.
Att bygga och upprätthålla hälsosamma relationer är en grundläggande aspekt av våra liv. Oavsett om det är en romantiskt relation, en vänskap eller ett familjeband, berikar hälsosamma relationer våra liv och ger oss lycka.
Kommunikation är hörnstenen i alla framgångsrika relationer. Men ibland kan det vara svårt att uttrycka sig effektivt, särskilt under stunder av konflikt eller svårigheter. Här kan relationscitat vara användbara för att ge förståelse och perspektiv på situationen.
Kika runt på vår sida för att hitta inspiration i vår samling.
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Den som har fel är lättare att övertyga än den som har till hälften rätt. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Om snöret inte håller, utan går av, är det bara att försöka med ett annat snöre. – Nalle Puh
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För att visa, att man inte alls blev rädd när man hoppade till, kan man hoppa upp och ner ett par tre gånger liksom för att motionera sig. – Nalle Puh
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Hur underbart det skulle vara att ha en riktig hjärna, som kunde tala om saker och ting för en. – Nalle Puh
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De som Gud vill förgöra, gör han först arga. – Euripides
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Det är roligare att prata med någon som inte använder långa, svåra ord, utan korta, lätta ord, som: ‘Vad sägs om lite lunch?’. – Nalle Puh
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Alla är ansvariga inför alla för allt som sker på jorden. – Dostojevskij
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När du hälsar på hos en vän och känner för en liten smakbit av något, försök att titta lite längtansfullt i riktning mot skafferiet. – Nalle Puh
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Ibland är en båt en båt och ibland är den närmast en olyckshändelse. Det beror alldeles på om du är över eller under den. – Nalle Puh
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Den verkliga upptäcksresan består inte i att söka efter nya vyer, utan att se med nya ögon. – Marcel Proust
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När du talar med en Björn med Mycket Liten Hjärna, får du inte glömma bort att långa ord kan besvära honom. – Nalle Puh
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För den outbildade är ett A bara tre pinnar. – Nalle Puh
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Ett spontant tal tar tre veckor att förbereda. – Winston Chuchill
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Ett fyndigt ord bevisar ingenting. – Voltaire
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Det krävs ett helt nytt sätt att tänka för att lösa de problem vi skapat med det gamla sättet att tänka. – Albert Einstein
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Fastän det är väldigt gott att äta honung, så finns det ett ögonblick alldeles innan man börjar äta den som nästan är ännu bättre. – Nalle Puh
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Historikern är en profet som blickar bakåt.
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Jesus said, ’The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.’ I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ’kingdom,’ he would have said, ’dimension.’ And ’heaven’ refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness. – Eckhart Tolle
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I sometimes ask people, ’Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?’ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the […]
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live. – Eckhart Tolle
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People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on. – Eckhart Tolle
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Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now. – Eckhart Tolle
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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person. – Eckhart Tolle
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To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All […]
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To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment. – Eckhart Tolle
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You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future. – Eckhart Tolle
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have. – Eckhart Tolle
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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness. – Eckhart Tolle
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You are not a problem that needs solving. – Eckhart Tolle
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without. – Eckhart Tolle
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality. – Eckhart Tolle
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you. – Eckhart Tolle
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Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ’I know.’ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. – Eckhart Tolle
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The ’soul’ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are. – Eckhart Tolle
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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears. – Eckhart Tolle
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Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you. – Eckhart Tolle
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up. – Eckhart Tolle
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Always say ”yes” to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ”yes” to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you. – Eckhart Tolle
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form. – Eckhart Tolle
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When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you”re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence. – Eckhart Tolle
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The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, […]
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Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces. – Eckhart Tolle
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction. – Eckhart Tolle
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Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now? – Eckhart Tolle
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Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet. – Eckhart Tolle
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present. – Eckhart Tolle
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Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can”t stand the suffering anymore. – Eckhart Tolle
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What a liberation to realize that the ”voice in my head” is not who I am. ”Who am I, then?” The one who sees that. – Eckhart Tolle
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living. – Eckhart Tolle
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I’ve always enjoyed being in the background, sitting in a cafe, watching people. But now, when I sit in a cafe, sometimes people watch me. It’s a challenge. But it’s usually people who want to say ’your book transformed my life’, or something… so then I’m joyful. One moment before, I didn’t want them to […]
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The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ’recognize’ because you’re not… it’s not new. – Eckhart Tolle
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ’Be still, and know that I am God.’ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river. – Eckhart Tolle
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Life is an adventure, it”s not a package tour. – Eckhart Tolle
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip. – […]
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I may never be good enough for some, but I’ll be the best for those who deserve me.
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don”t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence. – Eckhart Tolle
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I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes. – Eckhart Tolle
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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose […]
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Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident. – Eckhart Tolle
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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make. – Eckhart Tolle
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it”s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing. – Eckhart Tolle
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Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. – Eckhart Tolle
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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ’I don’t have time.’ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 […]
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future. – Eckhart Tolle
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You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe. – Eckhart Tolle
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. – Haruki Murakami
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The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence. – Eckhart Tolle
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People don”t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind. – Eckhart Tolle
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there. – Eckhart Tolle
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small. – Eckhart Tolle
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it. – Eckhart Tolle
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. – Eckhart Tolle
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I don”t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn”t say created the universe. It is creating the […]
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody’s mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history. – Eckhart Tolle
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity. – Eckhart Tolle
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Thinking is a wonderful tool if it”s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you”re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted. – Eckhart Tolle
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Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to – alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person – you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain. – Eckhart […]
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The only thing you ever have is now. – Eckhart Tolle
