Quotes About Relationships

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.

But in the same way that you can listen to a part of yourself without agreeing with it, you can listen to your partner, or indeed anyone, with compassion without giving up your own position. You gain both closeness and true power by acknowledging what someone else thinks and feels. An

So often, women tell me they are "confused." But confusion usually isn't all that confusing. Most of the time, it happens when someone you care about directly contradicts or invalidates what you know deep down to be true. Rather than risk losing the relationship, you give up your clarity—and get confused. Interestingly,

It goes back to women's sensitivity to others and their desire to maintain connection at almost any cost. Often, women won't even ask at all. They'll "intuit" whether a request might cause somebody discomfort, hold themselves back from asking, and then secretly be angry at the person they haven't asked for not being willing to give it to them! In

People oughtn't to breeze into your life and out again in ten seconds, without leaving a name behind

My problem was that by this time the Colonel and I had already had thirty straight hours of Togetherness and I'm not equipped for it, not even with the best friend I have on earth, which he isn't.

consider the people who can support you as you work toward your goal. Who will give you honest feedback, offer expertise, or just be available to listen as challenges arise? Continue reaching out to these people when needed.

"Crimes of passion," that phrase drives me crazy. A man murdering his girlfriend is not a crime of passion. Premature ejaculation, that's a crime of passion.

Family is worth clinging to wherever one can find it.

Can you continue to love a person regardless of such shortcomings? Maybe because you hope to save them? Or because you can't help it? Isn't that what love is all about?

Any business with customers is in the "people" business.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

Take my wife, please.

Human contact wears things out with disheartening slowness.

To cease to love is worse than to hate, for say what you will, death is worse than suffering. I am crying because one is alone.

There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Et c'est le malheur des femmes, que les hommes supportent la négligence chez un homme, mais que chez les femmes elle leur fasse horreur.

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.