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Quotes About Relationships

I've always said that people who claim "you can't buy love," have never purchased a dog. You most certainly can buy love, whether it's a shelter pet, a rescue dog or a pure-bred Sheltie.
~ Rosemary Thornton
what human walking this earth is really worthy of their dog's unconditional love?
~ Rosemary Thornton
Things don't matter, people do
~ Rosie Thomas
How many people still have that relationship with their ex, where you call each other up just to yell? It's like you're married: You're not having sex, and you're fighting.
~ Rosie Tran
We knew each other, we lived together, we loved together, and we were having a good time together. I hadn't been this happy in a long time. We had plenty of destiny. If we played our cards right, we could reach the stars in this beautiful generation and never come down in a million years of rolling eternity.
~ Ross David Burke
What did the old man want?" "Your husband's money, just like everyone else." "But not you, eh?" Her voice was sardonic. "Not me," I said. "Money costs too much.
~ Ross MacDonald
The problem was to love people, try to serve them, without wanting anything from them. I was a long way from solving that one.
~ Ross MacDonald
Bess came out of her room. She had changed into a dress which had to be hooked up the back and I was elected to hook it up. Though she had a strokeable-looking back, my hands were careful not to wander. The easy ones were nearly always trouble: frigid or nympho. schizy or commercial or alcoholic, sometimes all five at once. Their nicely wrapped gifts of themselves often turned out to be homemade bombs, or fudge with arsenic in it.
~ Ross MacDonald
Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
~ Ross Perot
In the Define Adult Concerns step, kids practice listening to another person's concerns (what many of us refer to as empathy), taking another person's perspective, and appreciating how their behavior is affecting others.
~ Ross W. Greene
because of maturation and/or because new skills and improved relationships were developed when the medication was being prescribed, it is sometimes possible to discontinue the medication. Ultimately, the question of whether a child should remain on medication must be continuously revisited.
~ Ross W. Greene
conclusions about each other's motives or thoughts. Others have referred to this pattern as psychologizing or mind reading
~ Ross W. Greene
How the problem is affecting the kid (health, safety, learning) How the problem is affecting others (health, safety, learning)
~ Ross W. Greene
Plan B consists of three steps or ingredients: The Empathy Step: Gathering information about and understanding what's making it hard for your child to meet a given expectation. The Define Adult Concerns Step: Being specific about why it's important that the expectation be met (how the problem is affecting the kid and/or others). The Invitation Step: Collaborating with your child to find a solution that is realistic and mutually satisfactory.
~ Ross W. Greene
And that's what it's about, isn't it? Love? Love's about making it last, making it stick, making it count - even when it hurts, when times are hard, when people change, when life changes them. If you love someone, then you have to want to love them, whoever they are.
~ Rowan Coleman
I think it's love that lasts. It's love that remembers us. It's love that is left, when we are gone. I think those feelings are more real than our bodies and all the things that can go wrong with them.
~ Rowan Coleman
Jill would kill me if she thought anyone fancied me," he said with charming anxiety. "No, she wouldn't", Natalie reassured him. "We like our men to be fancied. What we do not like is for them to fancy others. That is when you risk wandering into the realm of sudden and violent death.
~ Rowan Coleman
Falling in love doesn't wait to happen at mutually convenient times.
~ Rowan Coleman
Because I wondered what it's like to be in love,' she said. 'I thought you might have been. I read about it in books, of course, but I just wonder what it's like.' 'Like butterflies and rainbows, I think,' I say. 'And feeling crazy and exhilarated and high, and sometimes terrible and sad.But mostly feeling like you and the person you love are part of your own little universe that just the two of you have made, and everyone else doesn't really matter. I think it's probably like that.
~ Rowan Coleman
It seems to me that you can't decide to like a person based on their personal circumstances. It seems to me that sometimes you can like a person because of who they are, despite their personal circumstances.
~ Rowan Coleman
These last few months, I have simply been a woman waiting to be loved once again, loved in a way that I let define me. But I existed before Vincent loved me. I existed before he became lodged in my heart. And if I have lost him, I must still be able to exist. What choice is there when a man stops loving you? You can't really just let yourself blow away on the wind, can you?
~ Rowan Coleman
Never regret love," she says. "That's my motto. I don't ever regret having loved someone too much, only not loving someone enough.
~ Rowan Coleman
Mi queridísima Leigh, al margen de lo que pase, recuerda siempre, siempre, que todos los días hay que hacerle saber a persona que amas lo mucho que la quieres, y todo irá bien.
~ Rowan Coleman
If God wants [my] company, musn't we say that God wants the company of all those who have made [me] to be [me]?
~ Rowan Williams