Quotes About Relationships

The facts of this world will never satisfy the human heart, but what we give each other can, when it holds love.

One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people.

Find out what each character cares most in the world because then you will have discovered what's at stake.

Sometimes you run into someone, regardless of age or sex, whom you know absolutely to be an independently operating part of the Whole that goes on all the time inside yourself, and the eye-motes go click and you hear the tribal tones of voice resonate, and there it is - you recognize them.

You stop pretending life is such fin or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people.

Besides, those few people who aren't a mess are probably good for about twenty minutes of dinner conversation.

There is still something to be said for painting portraits of the people we have loved, for trying to express those moments that seem so inexpressibly beautiful, the ones that change us and deepen us.

P 264: Elizabeth talking to Rosie re Sharon leaving--Try to be a good sport, baby. Sharon feels as bad as you do. It's all right for you to be mad, but...try to be as good a sport as you can. I'll tell you. It's a run-of-the-mill shitty thing. Life is full of them. And it is ALWAYS feels better to be kind.

You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath.

He started to explain his position, trying to get me to engage. I secretly shut my heart to him completely. I forgot that this hurts only me.

So I practice the fifth Get: I get in touch with others. I tell my partner the truth about how crunchy I feel inside, how unevolved or vindictive. Or I pick up the three-hundred-pound phone and tell a close friend. Or I get in the car and head to where one of my precious communities has gathered. This might be a park, my church, my Sunday school room; with hikers, sober people, townsfolk.

I have a quote taped to my office wall from an anonymous source that says, 'Love is hard. Love is ... seeing the darkness in another person and defying the impulse to jump ship.

Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.

we won't love you if you're perfect

A man didn't specialize in mathematics because he had a rare talent for human relationships.

Given the infinite variety of human personalities, it was impossible to like everyone.

If Jana had been given to putting her thoughts into words, she might have told Laxmi that without someone to love,there was no reason to live.

Your voice is sad and your hands are slow, And your eye meeting mine turns away.

Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [...] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves.

We must not forget what it means to be in love with another human being, Lucjan had said. For this, once lost, can no longer be imagined.

No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.

My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding of a relationship to a single form. This is not tragedy but part of the ever-recurrent miracle of life and growth.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other (one perfect sunrise gazing at another!) but in looking outward together in the same direction.