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Relationship Quotes


"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."


"And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages? Might as well talk about prudent suicides."


"She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be."


"In a marriage, it is not about how who made the money, it is about how it is distributed."


"So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!"


"For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness."


"It's amazing what a woman will read into if you by accident, say I love you. Ten times out of ten, a guy means I love this."


"You can't lift a relationship up if you keep walking over the other person's mistakes."


"I understood books. I did not understand boys-especially alien boys."


"In a relationship, when trust is lost, everything is lost."



"I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you."


"Every person is driven to self-deceive, simply to get out of the discomfort of the truth. The best relationships are with people who will not let you be blind. They reveal your hidden strengths and your concealed wounds."


"The next day he passed Alai in the corridor, and they greeted each other, touched hands, talked, but they both knew that there was a wall there now.It might be breached, that wall, sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken."



"So often we operate from ideas of love that don't fit our reality."


"Promise mw, you will never leave me."


"Friendship admits of differences of character as love does that of sex."


"If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may-no matter how generous and good his nature- one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so."


"Never keep score in marriage, your wife is going to win anyway."


"No, Sky. You didn't tell her everything you told you everything. Those things happened to you, not to someone else. They happened to Hope. They happened to Sky. They happened to the best friend that I loved all those years ago, and they happened to the best friend I love who's looking back at me right now."


"When people break off relationships, they break them both from the outside and from within. The external spoils because of circumstances, but the inner [inside] must not spoil."


"When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts."


"Go! Yes, You! Go! I will not force you to like me; I will not force you to love me. Unconditional love has a condition inside it but there is no you in me. If I know my real me, then I know your real you. I know your value in me and I also know my value in you. If your value is not in me and my value is not in you, then I will not force you to like me; I will not force you to love me, so go!"


"Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?"


"Most people who are would each not be in love with their partner, if they did not have the kind of genitals they have."


"The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body."


"This is why some relationships look so beautiful and some look so tragic - beauty belongs to the thoughtful, tragedy to the neglectful."


"That's what Father and Mother are, thought Nafai. They stay together, not because of any gain, but because of the gift. Father doesn't stay with Mother because she is good for him, but rather because together they can do good for us, and for many others."


"I understand women" ... There's no man alive who can honestly say those words and mean them. It just isn't possible, so there's no use trying. But that doesn't mean you can't love them anyway. And it doesn't mean that you should ever stop doing your best to let them know how important they are to you!"


"There are lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love."


"A light-hearted point to consider: Do you know the number one reason a man falls in love with a woman? Because of how she makes him feel about himself. Do you know the number one reason a man falls out of love with a woman? Because of how she makes him feel about himself! It is the same reason! When you inspire and motivate another person through your positive energy, they want you to stick around!"


"A true man will treat a woman how she treats herself, you can't expect to be a queen when your disrespecting your own crown."


"It began with a hello, and ended in hell."


"Of course, he didn't know anything about these Indonesians, or why they would have been there at this moment to save his life, but the fact that they had guns and weren't firing them at him implied that for the moment, at least, they were his dearest friends."



"It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg."



"People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed."


"Learn to be friendly and learn to welcome all people, but note however in doing so that it is not every hand that is stretched towards you that deserves your handshake!"


"What we had was love. We were like two halves of a whole, always ready to support each other. Neither of us was perfect, but that didn't matter. With him, I could defeat this rage that filled me. He believed I was stronger than it. And I was."



"You cannot find God without finding people."


"You never know what people live through. Be kind to all people."


"Maybe I was naA ve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything."


"Lust makes you weak, passion makes you strong, love makes you brave, and heartache makes you wise."


"You know what's lame, Pudge? I really care about her. I mean, we were hopeless. Badly matched. But still. I mean, I said I loved her... I mean, it's stupid to miss someone you didn't even get along with. but I don't know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with."


"Being called 'love' or 'my love' by someone doesn't necessarily mean that you are loved or even liked by them."


"When it comes finding the right soul mate, the problem with a lot of people is that they are expecting to find their right partners while looking at the wrong places."


"Love is such a tremendous force of feeling! When you can't stop loving, you simply cannot stop it."


"Surround yourself with beautiful and positive people, who love you and believe in you."


"I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding."


"Some marry because they are in love. Others marry to have sex ... without the guilt."


"Marriage is a full time job, a good one comes with full benefits."


"Marriage and dating are man-made ideologies; if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, we'd all be born in pairs; as couples."
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