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Relationship Quotes
"Marriage is a necessary evil."
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"A marriage is meant to be a blessing on the world, because it is a context in which two people might become more than what they would have been alone. The entire world is healed by the presence of healed people."
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"All anyone really wants is to feel appreciated. So if you want to create real, long-lasting relationships, do that."
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"I almost thought that marriage was a cure to loneliness, alas! so many are lonely inside marriage. Then I realized it's not marriage that takes the loneliness away, but when both within marriage honour God and the vows made before Him."
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"Quit staring at my breasts," she hissed with a soft stomp of her heel.His gaze flashed to hers."Why? They're mine."
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"Every incident chips away at your limit. Every time you choose to stay, it makes the next time that much harder to leave. Eventually, you lose sight of your limit altogether, because you start to think, 'I've lasted five years now. What's five more?"
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"I believe the best gift you could ever give a woman is your time."
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"When someone respects you, s/he confronts you in private before taking you in public and/or stabbing in the back and backbiting you..."
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"There are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it."
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"If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will protect upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. I will give you all this and more, until I get so exhausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy is by becoming infatuated with someone else."
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"We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex."
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"In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing."
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"People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that."
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"I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those."
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"A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish."
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"The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships."
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"The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform."
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"When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper."
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"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."
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"Some people in your lifeTouch you so very deeplyThat you drown totally in that depth."
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"But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends."
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"One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give."
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"People will come and go in your life and only few of them will become Immortal in your heart."
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"Sex is about physical attraction, yes, but it's also about trust. I don't trust you. You're completely self-absorbed and egoistic. You offer nothing I want."
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"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions."
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"We pick our friends not only because they are kind and enjoyable company, but also, perhaps more importantly, because they understand us for who we think we are."
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"If people don't appreciate your REAL self it's hard to be with them, but you only find TRUE friends by SHOWING that self & TRUSTING."
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"When you first meet a person, sometimes they'll pretend to be all that you like. Deception is hard to predict instantly at times, but if you hang with them for a while their true colors will eventually begin to show."
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"We fell in love and heard thousands of words in every silence between us. Then we fell apart and heard only silence in thousands of words we spoke to each other."
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"It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day."
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"The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support."
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"Paul, Paul, this is the claim you never made, the fervor you never showed. You were so cool and light, so elusive, and I never felt you encircling me and claiming possession. Rango is saying all the words I wanted to hear you say. You never came close to me, even while taking me. You took me as men take foreign women in distant countries whose language they cannot speak. You took me in silence and strangeness."
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"I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing."
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"A woman may be looked upon as an object for sexual satisfaction but her multifarious roles and diversified approaches make her a complex being which man has not been able to understand."
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"I am awake and witness to the beauty that resides behind you're soulful eyes of intent. Become my impaler."
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"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
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"You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage."
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"The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most."
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"Love is like the wild rose-briar;Friendship like the holly-tree.The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms,But which will bloom most constantly?The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,Its summer blossoms scent the air;Yet wait till winter comes again,And who will call the wild-briar fair?Then, scorn the silly rose-wreath now,And deck thee with holly's sheen,That, when December blights thy brow,He still may leave thy garland green."
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"The best relationship is when you can completely act yourself and they can still love you for who you are."
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"Do not distance yourself from the people who need you most today, because tomorrow you will need them the most."
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"Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others."
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"There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect."
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"Boys find love in pants and girls find in pockets."
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"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear."
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"Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it's just friendship, without friendship it's just lust."
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"Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture."
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"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it."
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"Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship, entitlement and expectation will poison it."
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