Quotes About Relationships

What saved us from becoming hard-nosed or callous was that we really liked each other, while remaining totally mystified by each other.

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

No doubt Richard's father, like my mother, had once held his infant son in his arms, looked into the eyes of his child's mother, and believed they would move into the future together with love. The fact that they didn't was a weight each of us carried, as every child does, probably, whose parents no longer live under the same roof. Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.

I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this.

Ten years from now, her mother might not even recognize her. Already she was different, but the day would come when she'd be this person her mother had never seen. There would be other people - someone like Carolyn or Alan, or even Violet - who had known her longer than her mother ever did.

How does it happen that a person with whom you have shared your most intimate moments—greatest love, greatest pain, joy, also grief—can become a stranger?

Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.

If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.

You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)

Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!

Good relationships require a lot of hard work, education, and willingness to meet each other's needs.

Staying angry at someone who has hurt you is like taking poison hoping that your enemy will die.

Great relationships are one of the most precious treasures in life, but we must feed them regularly by putting time into them. If you find you have no time to develop and maintain strong, intimate relationships with God, with yourself, and with your family and friends, then you are absolutely too busy.

We must learn to say no and not fear the loss of relationships. I have come to the conclusion that if I lose a relationship because I tell someone no, then I really never had a true relationship at all.

One of the things you can do as a confident woman is apply the blood of Jesus Christ by faith to your household. I do this regularly. I apply it to my own life, my mind, emotions, will, body, conscience, spirit, finances, relationships, my walk with God, my husband, children and their families, co-workers and all the partners of Joyce Meyer Ministries. I do this by praying and releasing my faith that there is indeed power in the blood of Jesus to cleanse and protect.

Let us love one another, for love is from God; and he who loves [his fellowman] is born of God and is progressively coming to know and understand God.

Love Others Today: Take an honest inventory of your relationships. Are you trying to buy anyone's friendship for your own benefit instead of blessing that person out of sincere love?

The things we do to serve one another are the things that bind us together.

Love Yourself Today: "Lord, I declare that I love myself because You love me. The more I love myself, the more I can love others.

The best way to get along with people is not to expect them to like you.

character simply by listening to their conversation. The more loving our words and actions are toward others, the more loving and kind our thoughts will be.

Real love is a decision concerning the way we behave in our relationships with other people.

People who have no capacity to trust suspect the motives of others. I know this is true because I had a real problem in this area. Even when other people told me they loved me, I was always waiting for them to hurt me, disappoint me, fail me, or abuse me. I figured that they must be after something; otherwise, they would not be nice to me. I just could not believe that anyone would want me just for myself. There had to be some other reason!

If you are a woman who truly wants to have peaceful relationships, I encourage you to examine yourself and ask God to reveal to you any unrealistic expectations you may have of other people.