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Relationship Quotes


"Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person."


"Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place."



"You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes."


"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."


"We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that."


"Men are what their mothers made them."


"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats."


"They tell me you're the best and the worst thing to have happened to me, but I do not see how it can be both. For if my death resulted from your presence, an everlasting sleep would have me dreaming happily of us together. I see no bad in that. Therefore, you must be the best thing to have ever happened to me because you make the worst seem wonderful."


"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."


"The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you."


"For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake."



"There is no hope or joy except in human relations."



"Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all."


"How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them."


"I don't have a mind to mindI only have a heartthat loves and cares."


"A husband is very much like a house or a horse."


"No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married."


"If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy."


"You can't force someone to care... You can only come to the realization that if you stay, they'll keep hurting you. I wish you the wisdom and courage to walk away and begin the healing process."


"You may control people physically by force, but you won't change their hearts and minds-that requires trust and friendship."


"Quit staring at my breasts," she hissed with a soft stomp of her heel.His gaze flashed to hers."Why? They're mine."


"Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes it takes the shape of aloneness. Sometimes it takes the shape of love."


"A man dies as often as he loses his friends."


"Many marriages would have succeeded today but many of the individuals didn't have the equipment; the knowledge to use to fix the situation. No marriage is irreparable but most most people are just too tired to fix it. This why it is important for you to get understanding.In all your getting don't get love....get understanding first. Understand what it means to be a woman. Understand what it means to be with a woman. You need to understand the complexancy in a woman and the uniqueness in a man. Understand communication skills, understand how to manage emotions and how to handle anger, you have to understand the dynamics of disagreement , you have to understand how to handle unfaithfulness; broken trust, if you do not understand all these things, you will always be stocked in life."


"Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them."


"Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it's just friendship, without friendship it's just lust."



"In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely certain that they have replied "I love you back" and not "I love your back" before you continue the conversation."


"There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage."


"Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery."


"A good man measures his life not in the number of his years but in the quality of his friends."


"I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's."


"But vilifying those we love always detaches us from them a little. We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands."


"Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn't return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different."



"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."


"Shane looked faintly injured. "I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when it comes to your boss, anyway. There was a flicker of jealousy about that, but she didn't have time, or energy, to consider it very much. Not even whether or not she liked it."


"From the moment they'd met, their friendship had been leading to more."


"Anna Petrovna: Do you know what, Kolya? Try and sing, laugh, get angry, as you once did... You stay in, we'll laugh and drink fruit liqueur and we'll drive away your depression in a flash. I'll sing if you like. Or else let's go and sit in the dark in your study as we used to, and you'll tell me about your depression... You have such suffering eyes. I'll look into them and cry, and we'll both feel better."


"It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting."


"Love, endure, persist... Everything will return to you, innocent fool!"


"I had a dog once. I thought so much of him that when he died I couldn't bear the thought of getting another in his place. He was a FRIEND-you understand, Mistress Blythe? Matey's only a pal. I'm fond of Matey-all the fonder on account of the spice of devilment that's in him-like there is in all cats. But I LOVED my dog. I always had a sneaking sympathy for Alexander Elliott about HIS dog. There isn't any devil in a good dog. That's why they're more lovable than cats, I reckon."


"Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships."


"Pick your friends like you pick your battles, wisely."


"Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love, they never allow you to wound their self-esteem."


"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"


"To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent."
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