Quotes About Relationships

He that fears your presence will hate you absence.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

A couple you do not recognize - visitors, strangers - come to the door. How are you to view these people and what is your responsibility towards them? ... To assume that these visitors are really like you, that there are no real difference between you and them, and that the highest goal possible is that you and the other members of your congregation will become intimate friends with them and invite them into the private spaces of your life.

Take the fact that you were created to love. Your heart can find real joy only through love - through loving and being loved.

I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.

I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.

There is not one familiar face Where many loved me once! I speak aloud--the lonely place Returns no kind response! Where I and others roved, I see Another roving race; Gay smiles are there--but ah! for me, Not one familiar face!

My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret To think more happy thou hadst been If we had never met.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.

Most people will never become wealthy in one generation if they are married to people who are wasteful. A couple cannot accumulate wealth if one of its members is a hyperconsumer.

Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.

A man is known by the company he keeps. A company is known by the men it keeps.

All human history is under the influence of the false-self system that easily moves from our hearts into our families, communities, and nations and then afflicts the whole human race. God invites us to take responsibility for being human and to open ourselves to the unconscious damage that is influencing our decisions and relationships.

Don't judge centering prayer on the basis of how many thoughts come or how much peace you enjoy. The only way to judge this prayer is by its long-range fruits: whether in daily life you enjoy greater peace, humility and charity. Having come to deep interior silence, you begin to relate to others beyond the superficial aspects of social status, race, nationality, religion, and personal characteristics. (OM, 114)

Where am I? Where am I in relation to God, to myself, and to others? These are the basic questions of human life.

When we eat together, when we set out to do so deliberately, life is better, no matter what your circumstances.