Quotes About Relationships

There are people who invite betrayal. They are demanding towards themselves and don't realize how hard they are on other people. They make it difficult for others not to fail them. And in some cases they even take a grim pleasure from being let down.

We don't exist in and for ourselves but only in as much as we are re-created in the imagination of another person— by entering that person's life as fully as possible. I mean, entering it imaginatively, intellectually, physically and emotionally with all the conflicts that that makes inevitable.

To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won't deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.

There is no generosity in women. They want everything coming in and nothing going out. They show no trust. Lord God, how they hate to pay you! They will get the work of two men out of you and I guess they would beat you with whips if they were able to. No sir, not me. Never. A man will not work for a woman, not unless he has clabber for brains.

Lucille Biggers Langford and Florence Mabry Whiteside. As the

Fogelson abused us like a stepfather.

It was a pattern he would play out his entire life: Rather than lose someone he cared for, he would withdraw first, usually by creating some mock conflict as a way of lessening the abandonment he felt was inevitable.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

I mean to take a good look at any man ere I leap into his arms.' Then look your fill, and leap away.

Social man is not a being secure in the given nexus of familial, ritual, and political ties that hold his life together but rather a being continually engaged in creating that nexus.

Era fuerte cuando él estaba débil, cortésmente débil cuando era él el fuerte.

Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live.

It's not just that people sacrifice their love relationships, and the care of their children, to pursue their careers. Something like this has perhaps always existed. The point is that today many people feel called to do this, feel they ought to do this, feel their lives would be somehow wasted or unfulfilled if they didn't do it.

There's a narrow line between love and hate sometimes, you know. And it can be crossed unwittingly.

Sometimes love tries to do too much.

When I loved you and you loved me, You were the sky, the sea, the tree; Now the skies are skies, and seas are seas, And trees are brown and they are trees.

The point is I don't love your wife. I love your daughter, sir.

She sat the sister of Arthur, the wife of Lot four sons got by him, and one not.

She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.

Why isn't one taught how to be loved? Why isn't one taught anything?