Quotes About Relationships

Intense conflict is an invitation to turn to God, who wants to lead us forward into restored relationships and into new organizational processes. JAN WOOD, LON FENDALL AND BRUCE BISHOP, PRACTICING DISCERNMENT TOGETHER

Aun cuando nuestra forma de vida pueda parecernos heroica, hay una buena proporción de nuestra frenética actividad que perturba a aquellos que nos rodean.

There is the tension between being and doing, community and cause

We bind ourselves to each other in times of strength so that in moments of weakness we do not become unbound.

True love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other.

Freunde ergänzen einander, ergänzen heißt ganz machen, um das nötig zu haben, muß man beschädigt sein, aber wenn man es nötig hat, so kann man auch niemand brauchen, der auf dieselbe Art beschädigt ist, sondern jemand, der andere Schäden aufweist. Die Freunde füllen die Lücken, komplementär, sie holen auf, was einem fehlt, sie tun, was man versäumt hat, Verwandte tun das nicht, oder wenn, dann nur zufällig.

I fell on my feet and found my bearings because of these. I could talk to them. They listened and answered, for or against, but always weighing what they had heard, unlike my mother, who used language for manipulation, not to express an opinion or state a fact. What sounded like a fact might be a lie, and every opinion was tailored for the moment.

The minute you meet some people you know you will hate their mothers.

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.

Olivia understood that actually they would be happier without her, doing matronly things and being comfortable with each other. But they were speaking for her sake.

There are certain people who if they are absent life becomes hard to bear.

She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they cannot follow us along our destined path.

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

You couldn't love someone the way he had loved her and then be turned off them in five minutes by nothing more than lies and daydreams. Could you? Could you?

if there are no demonstrations of love between two people, there is no actual love. If one half of a couple never wants to hold hands, never wants to cuddle, won't lift a finger to assist his or her partner in any way, forgets every important date, or barely says two words over dinner, then I say that person is saying loud and clear that he or she doesn't have any love in his or her heart.

Their pain was bigger than their love. You had to forgive them for that.

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

After all is said and done and institutions fail, people still have some ability to care for each other.

Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.

A person without self-confidence is incapable of being independent, and people who are dependent on their partners always create unhappiness. Always.

I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.