Quotes About Relationships

Angry words might sometimes motivate children to do what you say, but a closer look reveals damaged family relationships. Short-term compliance comes at the cost of long-term closeness.

Parenting isn't just about getting tasks done; it's about building relationships at the same time.

Life, of course, is full of people you discover you like a lot and then never see again.

A friend of mine, an older woman, once told me that every man is in love for an hour before and after each orgasm.

Dixon was Stern's brother-in-law, married to Silvia, his sister, Stern's sole living immediate relation and the enduring object of his affections.

Donne had declared that no person is an island. He had it exactly wrong. We all are.

It's not the way Zane looks, David, she said, her voice trembling with anger. It's because he makes me bubbly, and because we took a lot of risks together. It could just as easily be me lying there, and he would stay with me if it was. It's just programming! No. It's because I love him.

but loving had left her skinless.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

There is no truer, warmer pleasure in this world than to behold a great soul opening up towards oneself.

The world is so waste and empty, when we figure only towns and hills and rivers in it; but to know of some one here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence,—this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

No obstante, si tú te alejases de su lado, sentirían... ¿cuánto tiempo sentirían el vacío que tu pérdida dejaría en sus existencias?

I have made all sorts of acquaintances, but have as yet found no society. I know not what attraction I possess for the people, so many of them like me, and attach themselves to me; and then I feel sorry when the road we pursue together goes only a short distance.

We are never content with portraits of people we know. For that reason I have always felt sorry for portrait painters. We rarely ask the impossible of anyone, but of them we do. They are required to get everybody's relationship with the subject, everybody's affection or dislike, into the picture; and not merely represent their own view of a person but what everybody else's might be too.

En resumidas cuentas, ¡tus amigos te honran! Eres a menudo causa de su alegría y a tu corazón le parece como si no pudiera estar sin ellos; pero... ¿si te fueras, si te apartaras de este círculo? ¿Sentirían... cuánto tiempo sentirían el vacío que tu pérdida arranca en su destino? ¿Cuánto tiempo?

Those only obtain love who seek it not.

It is a great folly to hope that other men will harmonize with us; I have never hoped this. I have always regarded each man as an independent individual, whom I endeavored to understand with all his peculiarities, but from whom I desired no further sympathy. In this way have I been enabled to converse with every man, and thus alone is produced the knowledge of various characters and the dexterity necessary for the conduct of life.

Deine Freunde ehren dich! Du machts oft ihre Freude, und deinem Herzen scheint es, als wenn es ohne sie nichts sein könnte; und doch - wenn du nun gingst, wenn du aus diesem Kreise scheidest? Würden sie, wie lange würden sie die Lücke fühlen, die dein Verlust in ihr Schicksal reißt?

Certe volte mi accade di non poter capire come un altro possa volerle bene, abbia il diritto di volerle bene, mentre io l'amo così esclusivamente, così intensamente e non conosco, non so, e non ho altro che lei.

Çok zaman gö?sümü parçalamak beynimi da??tmak istiyorum; biz insanlar birbirimiz için ne kadar az ?ey yapabiliyoruz! ?çimde sevgi, sevinç, co?kunluk ve s?cakl?k yoksa bunu bana kimse veremiyor. Kalbim mutluluk içinde olsa bile, kar??mda so?uk ve cans?z duran kimseyi mutlu edemiyorum.

O via?? f?r? iubire, f?r? vecin?tatea celui iubit nu e decât o comédie à tiroirs, o proast? comedie cu sert?ra?e. Le tragi afar? unul dup? altul ?i le împingi iar??i la loc, trecând în grab? la cel?lalt. Tot ce se petrece, fie chiar bun ?i însemnat, abia dac? se înl?n?uie. Trebuie pretutindeni s-o iei de la început ?i ai vrea pretutindeni s? termini.

I could tear open my bosom with vexation to think how little we are capable of influencing the feelings of each other. No one communicate to me those sensations of love, joy, rapture, and delight which I do not naturally possess; and, though my heart may glow with the most lively affection, I cannot make the happiness of one in whom the same warmth is not inherent.

Ich hab allerlei Bekanntschaft gemacht, Gesellschaft hab ich noch keine gefunden.

Und doch, welch Glück, geliebt zu werden, Und lieben, Götter, welch ein Glück!