Quotes About Relationships

Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas. ( Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth .)

Los hombres construimos demasiados muros y no suficientes puentes.

Amicus Plato amicus Aristoteles magis amica veritas.

But, children, you should never letSuch angry passions rise;Your little hands were never madeTo tear each other's eyes.

Birds in their little nests agree;And 'tis a shameful sight,When children of one familyFall out, and chide, and fight.

Einen Menschen zu lieben, wie er ist, das ist leicht. Schwer ist es einen Menschen so zu lieben wie er nicht ist. In einem Menschen all das zu sehen, was er sein könnte, aber noch nicht sein kann.

When love exists, nothing else matters, not life's predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.

The child who prefers feeling becomes more adult in the handling of human relationships. The child who prefers thinking grows more adept in the organization of facts and ideas. Their basic preference for the personal or the impersonal approach to life results in distinguishing surface traits.

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

I began to wonder if what makes men walk so lordlike and speak so masterfully is having the love of women. If that was it, Sarah and I would make lords of each other.

Yeah, well, there's this thing about love. You aren't one hundred percent invested in what you want anymore. It becomes at least half about the other person.

You make a mistake if you don't try to figure out love," he said as he served the tarte citron- boldly tangy with a hint of sweetness held in his feathery pastry. "If you give yourself to someone without understanding it, you are only asking to be a slave".

Love is being, not belonging. Giving and receiving, not possessing.

The secret is treating family like guests and guests like family,

To have a home, a family, a property or a public function, to have a definite means of livelihood and to be a useful cog in the social machine, all these things seem necessary, even indispensable, to the vast majority of men, including intellectuals, and including even those who think of themselves as wholly liberated. And yet such things are only a different form of slavery that comes of contact with others, especially regulated and continued contact.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.

If I have learned one thing in the time I have spent here, is that sooner or later everything is linked to everything else. -Domick. Chapter 19, p210

If I have learned one thing in the time I have spent here, is that sooner or later everything is linked to everything else. [ Chapter 19, p210]

Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them.

You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to comprehend his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

It takes two to make one brother.