Quotes About Relationships

My family is undoubtedly different from yours. But one thing I've learned after more than twenty years of working closely with families is this: your family, like mine, is also marked by the consequences of the disobedience of our first parents as described in Genesis 3. Shame, secrets, lies, betrayals, relationship breakdowns, disappointments, and unresolved longings for unconditional love lie beneath the veneer of even the most respectable families. Coming

Love in practice is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

El que no sepa vivir en comunidad, que tenga cuidado con la soledad».

Few of us know the experience of being loved for being just who we are.

Uelskede børn er ofte underkastet voksnes normative tryk, som er stærkere end deres kærlighed. Børnene organiseres i stedet for at elskes,

Uelskede har en tilbøjelighed til altid på ny at lade sig overmande af de livsformer, de bliver syge af. Når dette sker, synker de dybere og dybere ned i deres uelskethed. Kærligheden er fortsat ulevet.

Uelskede føler sig hurtigt under tryk. Derfor sætter de deres grænser for snært.

Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same house as if they were in different parts of the world?

successful humor breaks down the power structures that tend to inhibit tighter social bonds and interactions

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

Du bist, was du liebst, nicht wer dich liebt. [...] Was ich damit sagen wolle? [...] Dass ein Mensch, der liebt, immer schon gewonnen hat, egal ob sich seine Liebe erfüllt oder nicht.

Mit jugendlichem Pathos hatte ich geglaubt, mich zwischen ihr und dem Schreiben entscheiden zu müssen, zwischen Liebe und Freiheit. Jetzt erst begriff ich, dass Liebe und Freiheit sich nicht ausschlossen, sondern bedingten, dass das eine nicht ohne das andere möglich war.

Ich kannte kaum jemanden in der Stadt. Niemanden, um genau zu sein. Ein paarmal hatte ich mich verliebt in ein Gesicht, aber ich hatte gelernt, solchen Gefühlen auszuweichen, bevor sie zu einer Bedrohung wurden. Ich hatte einige gescheiterte Beziehungen hinter mir und hatte mich, ohne wirklich einen Entschluss zu fassen, für den Moment mit meinem Alleinsein abgefunden.

a personal relationship in an impersonal world

The person who has never made an enemy will never make a friend.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Don't let your stuff be a battlefield for your relationships. Instead of focusing on whose mess it is, think of it as a group problem that you're going to solve together. Don't use words like "yours" and "mine." Talk about the clutter and challenges surrounding it as "ours.

If a gift has come to you wrapped in obligations and tied tightly with a ribbon of guilt, then it's not really a gift at all. It's a manipulation. A gift should be something freely given that enhances your life and reminds you lovingly of the giver. If it's not, you simply should not give it a place in your home.

Innately affectionate, and innately afraid of unreturned affection, and indomitably unwilling to let any of that stop her.

Everyone's got intimacy issues these days, in case you hadn't noticed." He must have; the population had been dropping for decades.

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