Quotes About Relationships

The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.

Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits.

The Buddha proclaimed sunyata, or Emptiness, to be the underlying nature of all phenomena, a web of causal relationships that the philosopher-poet Octavio Paz referred to as a "fathomless abyss above which metaphysical thought flaps its wings." In the Buddhist Tantras, this "truth that does not itself exist" and the concurrent freedom from self-identity is celebrated as the birth of a radiant, compassionate awareness, often symbolized by luminous multiarmed deities.

Mr. Sullivan to Mrs Sullivan] "I'm a very popular man, plenty of friends, and I can move in any circle and I'm always a perfect gentleman. I'd have plenty of friends if it wasn't for you. And you talk about being humiliated by me. People think you are queer, that's what people think about you

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

Theirs is a life measured by the richness of these relationships, rather than by accumulated possessions: they treasure life lived for the moment. The Rom have maintained this way of life not in some isolated spot, but superimposed upon a widespread sedentary civilization over hundreds of years.

SEX IS THE MAIN way guys express their emotions. Making love is our way of saying "I love you" and truly feeling it, as well as really meaning it. While women generally deem closeness a prerequisite for engaging in sex, for a man, having sex is the main way of achieving a true sense of closeness with a woman. Brain

What that means is you're no longer looking for a protector or a provider but a partner on equal footing.

While compromising may be the name of the game in the world of business, in this candy land we call love, it is not compromising your standards and remembering what you really want and deserve that will ultimately win the day.

For many millennia men faced their enemies; they sat or walked side by side as they hunted game with their friends." So unless you want your words to send him into battle, use evolution to your advantage and have a sex talk with him while taking a walk or drive, or just sitting comfortably next to each other on the couch. Prepare

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love." —Albert Camus

Family is what works.

The Cortas are the most egocentric, narcissist, arrogant – outright weird – pack of fucks I have ever met,' Marina says. 'And every second I am away from them, it kills me.

Lo único bonito de la Luna son las personas.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.

It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.

I doubt he'd give me the smell from his farts—no, tell a lie: in that one respect he's being more than generous.