Quotes About Relationships

Love and Pain go together, for a time at least. If you would know Love, you must know pain too.

Not for nothing did phrases like 'he who marries for love has good nights and bad days' and insults like 'cunt-struck,' the eighteenth-century equivalent of saying that someone was thinking with his dick, survive into the Victorian age.

Had I lost love and appreciation because I had grown so bad, or had I grown so bad because I had lost its encouragement?

A man whose wife has done everything he wishes for twenty years can never understand why she so suddenly changes. The woman who for twenty years has been silent, forgiving, smiling, patient, becomes in his eyes a rebel when in the twenty-first year she loses her patience and argues, accuses, demands explanations.Then she is a mutineer against whom every stratagem is permissible. Twenty years of patience have only given her the right to be patient also in the twenty-first.

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

To live with another within the compass of one heart: I must move to the side, must make myself small, so that the other has space and does not feel crowded.

Porque nadie puede caminar simultáneamente en todas las direcciones del amor otorgado a los santos: mientras uno investiga la altura, otro se sumerge en la profundidad y un tercero explora la anchura. Nadie puede elevarse por sí solo hasta la posición del Espíritu, del Hijo, del Padre: sólo la Iglesia como totalidad es la esposa de Cristo, y ello únicamente en la medida en que es el recipiente moldeado por Él para acoger su plenitud.

La Rochefoucauld'un dedi?i gibi: "Si on juge l'amour par la plupart de ses effets, il ressemble plus a la haine qu'a l'amitié" "A?k? yapt??? etkilerin ço?una göre de?erlendirirsek, bize arkada?l?ktan çok nefret gibi görünecektir.

It is with the [head louse and body louse] that we are chiefly concerned, and they are so closely related that, even now, by an occasional mésalliance resulting from the meetings of young people about the neck band, a body louse may go native and interbreed with a head louse. The crab louse we may neglect. He is probably of distinct generic origin and a creature that merits neither respect nor sympathy; not even terror.

Allow me someday to touch you.The way that you've all touched me.

Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that. But then there was the abject fear you would lose it. They say possessions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.

There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you're with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.

That's the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song

You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships.You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself turn to bones.

Shortcuts to love tend to be the fast route to long-term troubles.

Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled

They minute people fall in love they become liars.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes.

I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.

I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals.

And what is love? My measure of it is that I should have died to spare her. Her measure is for us to be together longer. I

Approach each session as an occasion to practice being with another without expectation.