Quotes About Relationships

Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.

If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach.

Just because people love your mind, doesn't mean they have to have your body, too

It's good you're happy, she said. She said the word happy as if she were looking at it from a great distance through a telescope.

Satisfied?' she said.    She's an Aries.    'Yes,' I said.    I'm an Aquarius.    We also had two pumpkins: both Scorpios.

This might have been a funny story if it weren't for the fact that people need a little loving and, God, sometimes it's sad all the shit they have to go through to find some.

She was never going to go out with another writer: no matter how charming, sensitive, inventive or fun they could be. They weren't worth it in the long run. They were emotionally too expensive and the upkeep was too complicated. They were like having a vacuum cleaner around that broke all the time and only Einstein could fix it.

Only take advice from people with lives you like.

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity.

Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends.

It is in our lowest moods, when we are least equipped to do so, that we are tempted to try to solve problems or resolve issues with others.

You'll also notice that, as you reach out and let others be "right," they will become less defensive and more loving toward you.

My best friend, Benjamin Shield, taught me this valuable lesson. Often our inner struggles come from our tendency to jump on board someone else's problem; someone throws you a concern and you assume you must catch it, and respond.

Be the First One to Act Loving or Reach Out

Those who are in the habit of correcting others are often resented and avoided.

Being listened to and heard is one of the greatest desires of the human heart.

Being listened to and heard is one of the greatest desires of the human heart. And those who learn to listen are the most loved and respected.

Although airing your grievances with others may help you feel less alone and on rare occasions gets you good advice, more often than not it keeps you stuck in a bad mood.

Do I want to be 'right'—or do I want to be happy?

It's part of a woman's hypergamous nature to always seek the best male that she could get.

The woman you marry is never the same woman you divorce.

There are women out there that will add value to your life - if you keep the wrong ones out.

Molecular genetic evidence (see Chapter 10 for the nature of this kind of evidence) shows that the closest living cousins of whales are hippos, then pigs, then ruminants. Even more surprisingly, the molecular evidence shows that hippos are more closely related to whales than they are to the cloven-hoofed animals