Quotes About Relationships

The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.

To mind being disliked by a woman you don't desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.

We had, you could say, everything but money -- Grandmam and I did, anyhow. We had each other and our work, and not much time to think of what we didn't have.

Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. (from Feminism, the Body, and the Machine)

People do not become wealthy by treating one another or the world kindly and with respect.

A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

snarky remarks. It leaves a door open for hope and reconciliation. Sassiness tells a man a woman's heart is still in his hands.

Take away health, wealth, and material success and all you have is each other. Maybe that's the place we should start.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Aelred writes that true Christian friendship begins with two people who are drawn to some quality of holiness or virtue they see in each other. Since both persons love Jesus Christ and want to build their friendship on their love of Christ, Jesus is, in a real sense, the third person in their friendship.

Pornography hurts more than the user. It alienates spouses. It destroys real intimacy. It reduces people to objects. And those are just the immediate human costs. The social impact is much wider and more damaging. It's a major factor in divorce, infidelity, and broken families. And even more brutally, the porn industry also fuels and feeds on the exploitation of women and minors forced into "sex work." Today

polygamists. But I'm not the one who put them

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

The shame-based person is nearly always enmeshed in some way with one or more people. While we are in a dysfunctional, shame-based relationship, we may feel like we are losing our mind, going crazy. When we try to test reality, we are unable to trust our senses, our feelings and our reactions.

Infants deprived of touching fail to thrive and grow, even if they get proper food, nourishment and protection. Touching is most powerful by appropriate skin to skin contact. Experiments with rabbits fed atherosclerosis inducing diets show that those rabbits which are held and petted by the laboratory workers tend not to get atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Those rabbits which are not held and petted tend to get atherosclerosis (Dossey 1985).

Virginia Satir has suggested that we need from four to twelve hugs a day as part of our health maintenance.

Some people who grew up in troubled or dysfunctional families found it difficult to complete a task or a project or to make decisions. This is because they did not practice doing so with the guidance and support of an important other. By contrast, others from dysfunctional families may be high achievers in some areas, such as education or work, but are repeatedly unable to achieve in other areas, such as intimate relationships.

Submitting to others, rather than affirming our own reality, is the heart of active co-dependence—we give up our own inner world in order to be accepted by others.

spirituality is about the relationships that we have with our self, with others and with the universe." (pg. 127).

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.