Quotes About Relationships

Maybe there were no villains in my mother's story at all. Just men and women, trying to do their best by each other. And failing.

True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else's love, it's generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial.

Giving and receiving unconditional love is the most effective and powerful way to personal wholeness and happiness.

Much has been written about codependency. All agree that it is about the loss of selfhood. Codependency is a condition wherein one has no inner life. Happiness is on the outside. Good feelings and self-validation lie on the outside. They can never be generated from within.

"Older men are much more attractive than young boys," Petronella said. "You're trying to cheer me up. Older men are more attractive because they have more money."

But the measuring up came first, not the love--don't marry for money, but marry where money is. Did men think like this? No, they didn't. They fell in love; then imagined that because they were in love, the girl would automatically measure up to their requirements too. They couldn't really love someone just as they were. And then when they found out that they hadn't got the person they had wanted--which was little wonder, since she'd never existed--the trouble started.

Marriage is very nice but there's nothing so wonderful about it. One little golden casket's very like another.

In truth, much of human social life—our morality, our relationships—revolves around challenges posed by intertemporal choice.

Are humans ever really capable of regarding others as ends in themselves?

If you're not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

The cartoonist Jules Feiffer, contemplating the communication problem in a nonindustrial context, has said, "Actually, the breakdown is between the person and himself. If you're not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

The greatest happiness in life is the knowledge that we are loved and valued for what we are, not for what we have or what we can do.

I love each and every one of you but, like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger.

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

I want to venture a hypothesis that, roughly expressed, goes like this: you cannot learn to love yourself until you find something in the world to love; no matter what it is. A dog, a garden, a tree,a flight of birds, a friend...Because what we love in ourselves is ourselves loving.

If your only nice to the people that are nice to you, big deal; what do you want, a gist certificate? Everyone does that. And if you only say "hi" in the hall to the people that say hi to you, what are doing more than anyone else? Maybe you know people who are different when they're alone than when they're with their friends. they might say "hi" to you if your alone, but with a group they act like they've never seen you.

We don't LOVE our Grandmas because they look like super models. We love them because of WHO they are

One of the best things I did during my single years was read books and listen to tapes on marriage. (You can't be too conspicuous, of course.) I learned so much about what makes good marriages work that it changed why I dated, how I dated, and even whom I dated.

love, and I wanted to know what it felt like. I didn't want Hollywood's definition; I wanted one I could trust. Some of my questions included: Can you choose to fall in love with someone? Is falling in love a spiritual feeling?

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.