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Relationship Quotes


"The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them."


"No, I don't think you're gonna be single forever, and also I don't understand your obsession with romantic love. There are other ways to have fulfilling relationships that can sustain you and make your life great and fun other than having a sexualized relationship. It's not the only kind of fulfilling human interaction. So, even if you are single forever, that doesn't mean that you've had some kind of failed life."


"When you know who matters most to you, giving things up, even yourself, doesn't really feel like a sacrifice."


"Love and marriage are of the Father's most powerful means for the making of his foolish little ones into sons and daughters. But so unlike in many cases are the immediate consequences to those desired and expected, that it is hard for not a few to believe that he is anywhere looking after their fate--caring about them at all. And the doubt would be a reasonable one, if the end of things was marriage. But the end is life--that we become the children of God; after which, all things can and will go their grand, natural course; the heart of the Father will be content for his children, and the hearts of the children will be content in their Father."


"You can only give and display what you have if you are frustrated with others you are quite a frustrating person and if you are loving others, you are a lovely person!"


"When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself."


"I'm not letting you go, Fiona, he murmured before brushing his lips over hers. She tasted like heaven. And his. Only his. "I'm not going anywhere."


"Look for the person everyone hates, and love them."


"We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others."


"One of life's great challenges is getting out of your own way after a divorce or breakup... Heartache and anger make you feel like enemies, but your children need you to be a team. Unfortunately, few rise to this challenge, and the children pay an emotional debt they did not incur."


"Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee."


"I'll never know if it was figuratively or literally when he said I drove him crazy."


"No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain."


"Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie."


"Love's cruel notion. - Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killingthe object of that love, so that he may be removed once and for all fromthe wicked game of change: for love dreads change more than it doesdestruction."


"My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them."


"Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me."


"Lovers should also have their days off."


"Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear."


"Relationships based on obligation lack dignity."


"I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other."



"Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want."


"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never."


"Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better."


"His ears caught a sweet chiming noise, and a moment later a warm rush fell over his body. How we doing Rhage? Too hot? Butch's voice. Up close. The cop was in the shower with him. And he smelled Turkish tobacco. V must be in the bathroom too. Hollywood? This too hot for you? No. He reached around for the soap, fumbling. Can't see. Just as well. No reason for you to know what we look naked together. Frankly, I'm traumatized enough for the both of us. Rhage smiled a little as a washcloth scrubbed over his face, neck and chest."


"I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me."


"Relationships do not preclude issues of morality."


"Trying to change someone to suit your desires is a setup for disappointment."


"No one should gain access to the important areas of your life if you are not absolutely sure they are there for good reason."


"He's a guy. We're easy and stupid. Just go bat your eyes at him and beg for forgiveness. It'll take five minutes, three if you wear something low-cut."


"He crouched at the car window and looked in. 'What a lovely family you have. What a charming family. They're all lovely. Except for that one.' His finger jabbed the glass. 'That one's a bit ugly."



"Stand together yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temples stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow."


"Love hurts, if rejected or betrayed.If not at all, then love is all around."


"Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for each other. They were words only the heart could hear and understand, words that could impart entire pentameter sonnets in their few, short syllables."


"A Woman Who loves you and really needs you in her life will always keep her eyes on you and always will make sure to keep you close to her not to ever let go. If she ever let you go. She never loved you. She was just killing her time."


"There's nothing lonelier than empty relationships. At least when you're alone you can be yourself, but when you're in empty relationships you can't even be yourself.You can be real alone, or you can be a ghost with false friends.Pulse proximity is not intimacy, and it's worse than no friends at all."


"Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing."


"I think that when every person in this room looks at Ze'ev and Scarlet, they don't see a Lunar and an Earthen. We don't see an agenda, or two people trying to make a statement. I think we see two people who were lucky enough to find each other in this vast universe, and they weren't going to let any boundaries of distance or race or even physiological tampering get in the way of a happy life together."


"It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."


"It makes the idea of in sickness and in health that much more real to see it play out in front of you."


"My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children."


"Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it's a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don't, you're always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes."


"The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust."


"When She Needs a Reminder of Your Birthdate, Make Sure Not to Remind Her That She was Once a part Of Your Life."


"To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone."


"If you like a person at their worst, you will love them at their best."


"It was God who gave a man's rib to a woman. But it is man who must learn to give away his heart and never take it back."


"I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to."


"They always come back, but we don't always answer."


"I'm not comfortable in this stadium, I explained, trying to look calm."I know. And you hate Fang looking at those girls. But we're still havingfun, and Fang still loves you, and you'll still save the world. Okay?"
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