Quotes About Relationships

Men pursue younger women for sport all the time—whenever they start feeling a little insecure. But when a woman does it, it's another thing altogether.

One cannot have love without ownership

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, that children understand; their stories and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the water of their lives.

Some of my friends are very poor, the only thing that they have is money.

All women bring with them to work their affinity for relationships. Females tend to see the workplace as a network of connections where friendships are established as people cooperate to produce work.

Solomon, in Proverbs, states that "true love cares enough to confront" and that "better is open rebuke than hidden love" (27:5).

As Paul Tillich explains, "Either love is something other than emotion or the Great Commandment is meaningless."6 When

Christian Nice Girls, because they fear rejection, tend to get their feelings hurt when other people have good boundaries and say things like, "I'm busy right now. Let's look at next month.

Self-sacrificial acts that are motivated by true love always have the other person's best interest at heart

acting nice feels natural—so natural that it's hard to detect its hidden, selfish payoff: It allows women to avoid uncomfortable but necessary conflict

Conflict is the price you pay for intimacy. Read that sentence again, and let it sink in. If you want to connect genuinely with other people, you have to risk conflict by being frank and firm in addition to gracious and loving.

When you accept delivery on truckloads of disrespectful treatment, you are teaching immature people that they can continue to misuse you.

you will be continually disappointed if you expect your husband to intuitively read your mind so that you don't have to own your own feelings

If you are thinking, My co-workers and I don't compete, we are one big happy family, brace yourself for a cold splash of reality. You can establish friendships in the workplace, but work at times will be a game with winners and losers. If you don't realize that, you are being naïve, and you are going to get hurt and taken advantage of.

The cruel side of me likes creating situations where people get buried deeper and deeper. I find that really amusing--the fact that Lindsay [in Freaks and Geeks] starts out encouraging Nick to follow his dreams and then ends up feeling sorry for him and making out with him and then getting stuck with this nightmare boyfriend, well...that's real life to me.

Don't make your ability to love yourself conditional on someone else's ability to love you.

You cannot experience joy in life by opposing the ideas or actions of other people. You can experience joy only by remaining faithful to the truth within your own heart. And this truth never rejects others, but invites them in.

Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.

The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices.

There, too, you are one among millions. But there at least you know your neighbors. Here, one cannot say that. The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends.

So the optimal plan, if you can manage it, is to have a few trusted friends you can speak openly to. This is not just a way to develop ideas; it's also a good rule of thumb for choosing friends. The people you can say heretical things to without getting jumped on are also the most interesting to know.

Private thoughts, feelings, and moments are the currency of relationships. Give them their proper value by sharing them exclusively with the people who share your trust and love. (Goodbye Phone)

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

It's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.