Quotes About Relationships

Men do not change from enemies to friends by the alteration of a name:

Marriages were more fragile and complicated than she had ever imagined. Trouble came in quiet, unexpected ways. Things had to be said over and over again, all existing agreements renewed and clarified.

They didn't speak, only touched and kissed, feeling the understanding that they loved each other deeply and permanently—that for him, she was the one woman who would stand in his life for all women, and in her life, he would stand for all men.

I love you' is what people say when they have run out of words and can't say anything else. It is like reaching out a hand in desperation.

Women had a way of dancing with the man who asked, and a lot of the natural-selection business that determined who was first in line, or even who considered himself worthy, got settled among the men themselves.

Alcohol makes you less inhibited.' I said, 'I'm not inhibited, I just don't like you enough to want to do anything with you.' I guess alcohol makes you more honest too.

Marriages are fragile. When you boil off all the nonsense, what they amount to is a promise.

We believe with all our hearts that it is possible to disagree passionately with people, even to see their views as wrong and harmful, and still love them.

No serpent's tooth, they say, has the sharpness of an ungrateful child, but no serpent's tooth has the sharpness of many an unappreciated mother.

It seems to me that-at least in our scientific theories of behavior-we have failed to accept the simple fact that human relations are inherently fraught with difficulties and that to make them even relatively harmonious requires much patience and hard work.

The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

It would take me thirty years to learn the psychological advantages of letting people use a mildly embarrassing nickname. It lets them think they own a piece of you, and that binds them to you.

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love." — Thomas Traherne

It is not easy to learn much about love, but one thing I discovered, that Lady Harleigh taught me: it is not whom you love that is important, but only that we love.

The Bible says Eve was born of Adam's rib, but he was born of the earth, so there was woman before there ever was man. She is not merely a mate, a life's companion, a helpmeet; she is the moving force, the power.

Marryin's good, keeps a body on his toes. Me, once I lost Clem, I never cared to wed again.

Such mistress, such Nan,Such master, such man.

As therefore we cherish our salvation and the honor of true religion, let us shine in that orb of relationships where God has placed us.

Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?

Topper was making her realise how calculatingly cruel and unsympathetic she was, how stubborn as a wife and inadequate as a friend. No