Quotes About Relationships

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.

For a woman the worst thing about a sperm bank is that sperm is no longer free. Just go into a bar, and a sperm container will try to pick you up.

If you abandon yourself in order to be in a relationship, you cannot be in a relationship

She [Cressida] knows it is men's sexual desire that makes women "angels" before they have been able to possess them; once possessed, women are "things" [Troilus and Cressida I.2, 225-28, 233-34].

Shakespeare was a white male, but he is not a dead white male. There may be only three or four women in each Shakespeare play but they are the key to how to transform a society. They are the teachers and the leaders in a new way of thinking about relationships, hierarchies, and love. They have the focus and energy to counterbalance the authority of the ten to thirty men who inhabit each play.

What is clear in this sexual/spiritual merging is that women and men can only love each other to this profound depth if there is absolute parity between them. I don't mean in worldly terms: I mean in inner, psychic terms. If there is an inequality of status in the lovers' minds, then true love is not possible.

Maybe you've allowed your negative voices to undermine your self-esteem, to hinder your work, or to keep you locked in unhealthy relationships. If so it's time to tell those voices you've heard their propaganda, and you're not going to take it anymore. Dismiss them, and you will be the only one holding the pen as you write the story of your life." from Happiness Becomes You

I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.

You and I We do not talk anymore And all our asterisks Are turning Into flowers.

When someone changes your world, that's when you know he's important to you.

Beauty always represents an inward and inexhaustible equilibrium of forces; and this overwhelms our soul, since it can neither be calculated nor mechanically produced. A sense of beauty can therefore permit us the direct experience of relationships before we can perceive them, in a differentiated manner, with our discursive reason; in this, incidentally, there is a defence for our own physical and psychic well-being, something that we cannot neglect with impunity.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

these women valued one another as kin and understood the transcendent worth of lineage.

Le persone sono come le parole. Da sole non significano niente, diventano belle se le metti bene insieme.

In the way such things happen in real life, I suspect I'll never see him again. We talked about that once. There was a term in Japanese, he said. Eng. It was both a concept and a word of advice. It meant that anyone you meet may be the most important person in your life. Therefore, that every stranger should be treated as a friend. Loved before it is too late. You never know (he said) in which night your ship is passing.

Whatever it is that makes closeness possible between people also puts them in the way of hard feelings if that closeness ends.

We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.

Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

I think you two forgot how to love each other, and that's just like poison. Worst thing you can do is forgot how to love someone.

Pain Can Come to you through the ones You Love

Love is Venemous

11. With one hand he drives, and with the other he holds her hand. His parents used to do that. He'd watch them from the backseat.

Todavía no sabía lo que era el amor ni si estaba enamorado de ella, pero cada vez que pensaba en ella sentía algo que no sentía salvo cuando lo sentía... No sabía por qué, ni qué significaba todo eso, ni qué debía hacer al respecto. Pero tratar de no sentirlo, tratar de que desapareciera, ahora le parecía algo profundamente equivocado.

The fact that we die is what makes what we do and who we do it with matter.