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Quotes About Relationships

You teach people how to treat you.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
~ Oprah Winfrey
When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. And I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives- when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our e-mail inboxes are empty- the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we've loved others and whether they've loved us.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The roles we play in each other's lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us--the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Whose life did you touch? Who did you love, and who loved you back?
~ Oprah Winfrey
People believe marriage will make us better.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Please take responsibility for the energy you bring into this space. I realized that for every relationship, not only do I have to be accountable for the energy I bring, but I also have to take responsibility for the energy that I allow from others. I understand that strengthening the bond in any situation is impossible if you're not surrounded by energy that lifts you up.
~ Oprah Winfrey
We go through life discovering the truth about who we are and determining who has earned the right to share the space within our heart. And now I simply want to share what I've been given. I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my heart is what has brought memory greatest success and joy.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Love is when you choose to be at your best when the other person is not at their best.
~ Oprah Winfrey
We go through life discovering the truth about who we are and determining who has earned the right to share the space within our heart. And now I simply want to share what I've been given. I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my heart is what has brought me the greatest success and joy.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you are able to give.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Happiness is never something you get from other people. The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you are able to give.
~ Oprah Winfrey
We only have twenty-four hours in a day. So you have a choice to walk with wise people and stack up more wisdom. Or you can become a companion of fools and your life will unravel.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Yet when I'd let some man use me, she'd often say, "He's just chipping away at your spirit. One day I hope he chips deep enough for you to see who you really are—someone who deserves to be happy.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Mungkin orang tidak ingat apa yang pernah kamu lakukan atau katakan, tetapi mereka selalu ingat bagaimana kamu membuat mereka merasa.
~ Oprah Winfrey
When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one, I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destroy their love, even on the worst days, even when they are heedlessly hurting each other in the cruelest , most deceitful ways, still carry in their hearts a consolation that never abandons them. (p.191)
~ Orhan Pamuk
Happiness means being close to the one you love, that's all. (Taking immediate possession is not necessary.)
~ Orhan Pamuk
But I think it must be easier for a girl to marry someone she doesn't know, because the more you get to know men, the harder it is to love them.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time.
~ Orhan Pamuk
If we love someone very much, we know that even if we give him the most valuable thing we have, we know not to expect harm from him. This is what a sacrifice is.
~ Orhan Pamuk
It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one knew who was dead or who was celebrating what - but an archipelago of neighbourhoods in which everyone knew each other.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Happiness is laughing together...
~ Orhan Pamuk
Görücü usulü evlilikte zor olan ÅŸey, kad?n?n hiç tan?mad??? biriyle evlenmesi deÄŸil, hiç tan?mad??? birini sevmek zorunda olmas?d?r, derler... Ama asl?nda bir k?z?n hiç tan?mad??? biriyle evlenebilmesi daha kolay olmal?, çünkü tan?d?kça inan?n erkekleri sevmek daha da zorla??yor.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Like most Turkish men of my world who entered into this predicament, I never paused to wonder what might be going on in the mind of the woman with whom I was madly in love, and what her dreams might be; I only fantasized about her.
~ Orhan Pamuk