Quotes About Relationships

Rayner avait sans doute une dizaine d'années de plus que moi. Ce qui ne pose en soi aucun problème. J'entretiens des relations chaleureuses, sans bras cassés, avec quantité de personnes de cet âge.

Rayner, I estimated, was ten years older than me. Which was fine. Nothing wrong with that. I have good, warm, non-arm-breaking relationships with plenty of people who are ten years older than me. People who are ten years older than me are, by and large, admirable. But Rayner was also three inches taller than me, four stones heavier, and at least eight however-you-measure-violence units more violent.

I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give.

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

You have five hundred Facebook 'friends'? That simply means you've redefined 'friend' to make it something like 'a contact I exchange data with'.

You don't have to be rich to leave a positive legacy; you don't have to be intelligent, famous, powerful or even particularly well organised, let alone happy. You need only to treat people with kindness, compassion and respect, knowing they will have been enriched by their encounters with you.

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

I don't think he ever told her he loved her. He probably knew the words would sound too small.

If I had Only ... Forgotten future greatness and looked at the green things and the buildings and reached out to those around me and smelled the air and ignored the forms and the self-styled obligations and heard the rain on the roof and put my arms around my wife ... and it's not too late

If we knew everything that was ever said about us and if at the same time we took every word at face value, we would remain friends with no one.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

Si tout amour prendroye racine J'en planteroye dans mon Jardin ("Indien elke liefde wortel schieten zou, dan zou ik ze planten in mijn tuin")

women would be wonderful if we could fall into their arms instead of their hands.

Everyone who made love the night before Was walking around with flashing red lights On top of their heads—a white-haired old gentleman, A red-faced schoolboy, a pregnant woman Who smiled at me from across the street And gave a little secret shrug, As if the flashing red light on her head Was a small price to pay for what she knew.

You know, there were major problems in my marriage.

As far as my divorce goes, I love my family and I love my wife to death and I just don't know what tomorrow's going to bring.

Che abandoned his first wife, Hilda, a Peruvian woman of Indian extraction, for a taller, blonder trophy wife (also named Aleida). Their 1959 wedding in Havana was the social event of the year and featured Raul Castro as "best man." After he married Aleida, Che would continue to "upgrade" his women, taking the worldly Tamara "Tania" Bunke, born of German parents in Argentina, as his mistress.

I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.

Goodbye Kid. Hurry back. – Humphrey Bogart, last words to Lauren Bacall as she briefly left his bedside before his death.

Anybody who would like to have a long life and make his subsistence expanded, should pay visits to his own relatives.

Let go the ones who just likes you, because they will leave you for the one they love, but don't let go the ones who love you, because they will never leave you for anyone they like

HB: So why does a person get involved with someone who's entirely wrong for him? NG: I think the answer, quite simply, is that you don't always get to decide to whom you give your heart.

Love isn't about having someone who's perfect. It's about having someone who's perfect for you.