Quotes About Relationships

Politics is not a game. It exists to resolve the largest questions of the society—the agreed-upon terms by which everyone can live peaceably with one another. At its best politics creates and sustains social relationships—the human conversation and engagement that draw people together and allow them to discover their mutuality.2

The study of man is the study of his extensions.

Fear" in the biblical sense…includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.

God's love is a costly love. It never takes the easy path away from relationships. Instead, it plots how to move towards other people. It thinks creatively of ways to surprise them with love.

God created you to trust him and love others. When you are not trusting or not loving, you are disconnected from your purpose, and hopelessness will thrive.

Object relations theorists are interested in understanding how formative interactions between parents and children become internalized by the child and, akin to cognitive schemas, serve as mental representations that shape or guide how children establish and carry out subsequent relationships with others.

Never invest so much in anyone romantically that you lose your head. The Buddha of casual sex, I remain detached at all costs.

A new love came into my life, a most beautiful one, one which will, I believe, stand the test of time...Perhaps C. will be remembered as the great love of my life. Already I have achieved certain heights reached with no other love.

People cut off love for all kinds of reasons but generally it has to do with them, not with somebody else.

Friendship is the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

A foe to God was never true friend to man

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. If you want your child, spouse, client, or boss to shape up, stay connected while changing yourself rather than trying to fix them.

I eventually came to define my marriage counseling, no matter what the cultural mix, as trying to help people separate so that they would not have to "separate.")

the ability to allow or even make room for reactivity in the other, without reciprocating, creates the best chance that both partners can go on to their next relationships with the least amount of emotional baggage.

The beauty of doing business with a crook is that he always forgives you for catching him, so long as you don't stop doing business with him.

The beauty of doing business with a crook is that he always forgives you for catching him, so long as you don't stop doing business with him.

To a friend, who asked him how to find out a girl's faults, he gave the sage advice to praise her to her girl friends.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

There is a destiny that makes us brother. None goes his way alone. All that we wend into the lives of others, comes back into our own.

A motivational love collapses itself, as the poorly constructed objects. Of course, no one bothers and regrets such love.

A risky risk of all risks in the context of rejection and acceptance is expressing and confessing love.

Anyone who indulges only in self-love remains devoid of true love.

As unaddressed and unnamed letter and message return to the sender; similarly, unclear love executes nothing.