Quotes About Relationships

The link between EQ and earnings is so direct that every point increase in EQ adds $1,300 to an annual salary.

The secret to winning this culture game is to treat others how they want to be treated, not how you would want to be treated.

Guys can't tell girls what to do. That's an unspoken rule. Learn that now and you'll be way ahead of the game.

So yeah, maybe this will be the rest of our lives. Pot roast and Diet Cokes and my parents making eyes at each other. As for those slaps and punches and hateful words, we'll just sweep those under the rug or wherever they can go.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

Divorce confuses the church today because marriage confuses. And marriage confuses the church today because love confuses.

Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.

I can't say for sure, because I have no experience, but -- well, is this what family is like? The feeling that everyone's connected, that with one piece missing the whole thing's broken?

I see that something's are hard to do, but that you can't live with yourself if you don't do them. I see that the best way to help myself is to help the people I care about. The rest will sort itself out. It has to, right?

Kate laid her hand against his cheek. "Why do you keep doing this? Why do you keep getting hurt?" "Bad habit," Milligan mumbled.

if nothing else comes of this, at least you're making friends. That's more than you had yesterday.

You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.

Anyway, Reynie thought, if nothing else comes of this, at least you're making friends. That's more than you had yesterday.

The fact that Sticky had briefly had a girlfriend, for instance, until she broke up with him for remarking upon her pulchritude. ("She didn't believe me when I told her it meant 'beauty,'" Sticky said.

You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simplier, but much less magical.

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

Dat had always told her that whenever you got angry at another person, it was an opportunity to take a glimpse of your own faults.

She was drowning—in friendliness, in community—and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.

Her whole life she always pictured falling in love being full of nervous emotion, peaks of romance, and the excitement of wondering if he loved her as much as she loved him. But maybe love was simpler. Maybe true love was finding someone you could talk to with ease, whose heart cared for the same things, and whose dreams could meld with your own.

For so long, she'd taken her memories of Patty - the memories they'd created together - and held them outside of herself, protecting herself from the pain of carrying them deep within. It was as if she carried all the memories in her jars. But if doing so, it was as if she'd also kept everyone else - those still in her life - at arm's length too.

That's why God gave us families - an community. No one is meant to live life alone, to carry their grief alone.