Quotes About Relationships

People, she sneered, were not meant to be as happy as you make them. … People were meant to be as happy as you make them.

Telefonun çalm?yorsa bil ki benim.

You only have to have two loves in your life: for God, and for the person in front of you at any particular time.

Love is not a feeling; it's a decision. It's not something you experience; it's something you choose to do. It's not an emotion; it's an ability. It's not something that happens to you; it's something you nurture and orchestrate and develop.

Love is a deliberate and determined act of the will. There is nothing idle or passive about it. It doesn't wane or fail when life gets tough; it only grows stronger and more resolved. It's the bond that keeps your relationship from drifting when every storm in the ocean is raging to tear you apart. It's the one thing you can depend on when all of life seems bent on getting you down.

EMOTIONALLY UNHEALTHY PEOPLE ARE LIKE HEAT-SEEKING MISSILES. THEY HAVE A WAY OF FINDING EACH OTHER.

People always believe that they are able to be objective, especially when it comes to relationships, yet very few are truly capable of

People always believe that they are able to be objective, especially when it comes to relationships, yet very few are truly capable of it.

For marriage to work, couples need to share the same basic views and expectations, have similar value systems, and a compatible set of goals and desires for the future.

Our love is fleeting and fickle. It is based more on emotion than determination. It is almost always conditional and undependable, and can change as often as the tides.

Truth without love is like surgery without anesthesia. Love without truth is like a cheerleader without a team. But truth in love is medicine. It is meaningful, and it is the only way communication can be effective and cause growth in relationships.

Defensiveness shuts down honesty and keeps truth from being expressed.

Gwen: It's not going to work. Paul: Pardon me? Gwen: Cinderella's not going to sleep with you because you're taking the ugly stepsister to the ball. She'll still make you wait.

O amor só mente para dizer maior verdade.

Todo amor não é uma espécie de comparação?

Once when I asked you if you still loved your wife, you said, Love leaves the back door open. Later, you said, Love like a hospital gown opens at the back. And you slipped out.

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend on our children to depend on us, the ways in which we encourage them to remain children, the ways in which they remain more unknown to us than they do to their more casual acquaintances; the ways in which we remain equally opaque to them.

Did mothers always try to press unto their daughters the itineraries of which they themselves had dreamed. Did I?

if someone "chose" you, what does that tell you? Doesn't it tell you that you were available to be "chosen"? Doesn't it tell you, in the end, that there are only two people in the world? The one who "chose" you? And the other who didn't?

In fact I had no idea how to be a wife.

Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age.

It is a good idea, then, to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about.

Sometime in the night she had moved into a realm of miseries peculiar to women, and she had nothing to say to Carter.