Quotes About Relationships

What they talked about and what was in the air was only the present, interrupted by the long times between Monday and Friday. These absences made their closeness to each other even more paramount, since together was where they'd always, only been.

Love isn't a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.

Love isn't a thing, but an endless series of single acts

There were no slaves in Natchez," she insisted haughtily. "We had field hands on our plantations, of course, but they were out of town or across the river. Here in Natchez, we had servants and we loved them. They were part of our families.

Neuroscience research tells us that the adolescent brain is primed for the acquisition of new skills. Teens are driven to seek out new experiences, more intense social and emotional relationships, and, for better or worse, new risks.

People are unrealistically optimistic even when the stakes are high. About 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, and this is a statistic most people have heard. But around the time of the ceremony, almost all couples believe that there is approximately a zero percent chance that their marriage will end in divorce—even those who have already been divorced!10 (Second marriage, Samuel Johnson once quipped, "is the triumph of hope over experience.")

Votre culture est trop superficielle pour comprendre la vie terrienne, et votre expérience est limitée. Aimer la même personne durant deux cent cinquante ans… À la fin, si vous y réussissez, si vous déjouez les pièges de l'ennui et de la complaisance, l'amour disparaît… remplacé par un sentiment proche de la vénération.

the only common denominator in all of your failed relationships is you.

Allow me to bring you companions worthy of your love.

When you are feeling depreciated, angry or drained, it is a sign that other people are not open to your energy. SANAYA ROMAN

Today, I take the time to get my friends and acquaintances current on the shifts in my inner life. I communicate clearly and openly. I allow time for people to adjust to the ways in which I have changed. I, too, adjust to the change in others.

Snipers are people who undermine your efforts to break unhealthy relationship patterns.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. —MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Cuando te sientes depreciado, enfadado o exhausto es señal de que los demás no están abiertos a tu energía». SANAYA ROMAN

the crazymakers in your life share certain destructive patterns that make them poisonous for any sustained creative work.

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'!" In other words, friendship is the most important thing—not career or housework, or one's fatigue—and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

To think that we might easily have gone through life not knowing each other, missing all this free flow of love and ideas and warmth and sharing...

The Parisian grocers insisted that I interact with them personally: if I wasn't willing to take the time to get to know them and their wares, then I would not go home with the freshest legumes or cuts of meat in my basket. They certainly made me work for my supper-- but, oh, what suppers!

Tell me, in storms, that you love me.

Cubans tend to have personal and complex relationships with Fidel Castro, often combining feelings of veneration, respect, or love with frustration or even hate.

No one belongs to us, and we belong to no one - not in that sense. This should free us, but it never quite does.

To love me, my family does not need to understand me.

On the phone, we argue. In person, we tend to become sarcastic. Our letters, though, have a touch of romantic collusion.

I don't think I'll be getting married. - Cat