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Quotes About Relationships

You don't love someone out of loyalty... nor out of sympathy, either.
~ Jae Hee
She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.
~ Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
All powerful souls have kindred with each other
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.
~ Samuel Smiles
How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.
~ H. L. Mencken
Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.
~ Aaron Hill
One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.
~ Tonya Hurley
No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that's not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from me.
~ Rachel Caine, Lord of Misrule
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
~ Henry Melvill
Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Love is the end of sympathy.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
The man who melts With social sympathy though not allied Is of more worth than a thousand kinsmen.
~ Euripides
I dated a teacher in high school. Yeah, it didn't make me cooler. And a lot of you are like 'that's cause you were homeschooled'.
~ Daniel Tosh
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.
~ Byron Katie
No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I learned how to play hard to get (push and pull) from my teacher Kwon Jiyong.
~ Seungri
No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.
~ Karl Hess
By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.
~ Shakti Gawain