Quotes About Relationships

Even if you are deliberately avoiding dominant people (parent, spouse, boss, child), you are still being controlled by them in their absence if you are experiencing emotional immobilization because of them.

Keep in mind that you have no responsibility to make others happy. Others make themselves happy. Thus, you may truly enjoy the company of another, but if you feel it is your mission to make them happy, then you are a dependent who will also feel gloom when the other person is down. Or even worse, you'll feel as though you let him down. You are responsible for your own emotions and so is everyone else. No one has control over your feelings, except you.

Get rid of the expectations you have for others. When the expectations go away, so will the anger.

Toda questão de amar, dar e receber tem por base um eu que é plenamente amado.

Giving love to others is directly related to how much love you have for yourself.

Love is the fruit of sacrifice. Wealth is the fruit of generosity.

Love is a word that has as many definitions as there are people to define it. Try this one on for size. The ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. This may be a workable definition, but the fact remains that so few are able to adopt it for themselves.

Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know. Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.

Aw, he's just you know...entrenched, Matt said. Gotta adjust to the perspective and deal from there. Then he added, Not that I'd want him as my dad.... Mike practically sprayed his milk. Dude! Can you imagine? Then Matt gave my dad a slap on the back and said, No way. I'm sticking with my main man here. My mom grinned from across the kitchen and said, Me too. I'd never seen my father cry. And he didn't exactly sit there bawling, but there were definitely tears welling up in his eyes.

If you were in love with her, that would be one thing. Love is something to be afraid of, but this, this is embarrassing.

Bryce, I asked you to conquer your fear, but all you did was give in to it. If you were in love with her, that would be one thing. Love is something to be afraid of, but this, this is embarassing. So she talks too much, so she's too enthused about every little thing, so what? Get in, get your question answered, and get out. Stand up to her, for cryin' out loud!

Don't sum up person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them.

Holly, I understand that you are upset because Gemma pulled down your ants, but why did you think pouring motor oil inside her backpack is the way to solve the problem?

My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and fall completely away.

It's that way with people, too. Only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.

Don't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them.

CHAPTER 12 Mom and Dad Boot Up

De verdad tenía miedo de herir sus sentimientos? ¿O le tenía miedo a ella?

My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.

it made me mad. How come a bully like Bubba had friends and I didn't?

I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. It's that way with people, too, he said, only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.

How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then; and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made. And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves

Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.