Quotes About Relationships

Tal y como están las cosas hoy en día, el sexo no significa nada. Es solo un deporte, como el tenis, ¿sabes? Lo que verdaderamente es íntimo entre un hombre y una mujer es la comunicación.

On our planet, sir, males and females copulate. Moreover, they enjoy copulating. But for various reasons they cannot do this whenever, wherever, and with whomever they choose. Hence all this running around that you observe. Hence the world.

We're a very cousiny people," Mary Harty told me. "One must tread very lightly here: Everyone is kin to everyone else.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.

But Jesus said, "Not everyone is mature enough to live a married life. It requires a certain aptitude and grace. Marriage isn't for everyone. Some, from birth seemingly, never give marriage a thought. Others never get asked—or accepted. And some decide not to get married for kingdom reasons. But if you're capable of growing into the largeness of marriage, do it." (Matthew 19:11-12 The Message, emphasis added)

A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city, and contentions are like the bars of a castle. —PROVERBS 18:19

The Lord then brought to my remembrance that His Word did not say, Children, obey your parents only if they are born again. He explained, You are my Child; therefore, I place My wisdom and instruction in the hearts of your parents for your guidance and protection.

We probably don't have to convince you that your spouse isn't perfect. No one is! But mistakes create opportunities for us to extend God's grace. Our willingness to forgive is one of the greatest evidences of Christ within us.

True love doesn't flatter; it's truthful.

Quando você está fora da vontade de Deus, você não será uma bênção, nem será auxílio em nenhuma igreja. Quando você está fora da vontade de Deus, até os bons relacionamentos ficarão estremecidos. Nós estávamos fora da vontade de Deus.

She still said nothing and I purposely did not look at her because I did not wish either to press her or to embarrass her. I was in love with her, and my heart went out to her as she tried to fathom her own feelings. I felt like saying: Don't bother to explain, darling. I know it all. Instead, the calculating side of my mind was at work: the side that plotted carefully, planned to get what it wanted and nearly always succeeded.

no man with any sense should marry the girl to whom he loses his virginity. It's like learning to drive in some clapped-out old banger and then holding on to it for the rest of your life when you've developed the skill to handle a BMW in rush-hour traffic on a busy Autobahn.

I married up several times. And then across once or twice. And then beneath me. I never quite found the right level somehow. Perhaps I should have married diagonally or in a slightly curved direction.

Every man is afraid of women as far as I can see.

What you know about women,' replied Maude, 'could be written in large font on the back of a postage stamp and there'd still be room for the Lord's Prayer. For all your great flirtations and seductions, for all your tarts, whores, girlfriends and wives, you've really learned nothing about us over the years, have you?

monogamy is simply not the natural state for man, and when I say man I mean man or woman. It just doesn't make sense to manacle yourself sexually to the same person for fifty or sixty years when your relationship with that person can be so much happier if you give each other the freedom to enter and be entered by people of the opposite sex whom you find attractive. A marriage should be about friendship and companionship, not about sex.

Why did they abandon me? Why do we abandon each other? Why did I abandon you?

Por la mejor razón del mundo: Por amor

Un hogar no es un edificio, ni una calle ni una ciudad; no tiene nada que ver con cosas tan materiales como los ladrillos y el cemento. Un hogar es donde está tu familia, ¿entiendes?

Maybe there were no villains in my mother's story at all. Just men and women, trying to do their best by each other. And failing.

I find that many handsome young men are cads

You know, some day, when you're all older,' he said, looking around the room, 'you're going to have troubles of your own and you'll have friends who are going through tough times. Maybe it'll even be one of your own children. And when that happens, you'll look back at the way you're all behaving now and wonder whether you might not have been able to show a little more kindness.

a person who never learned to trust confuses intensity with intimacy, obsession with care, and control with security.

The wounded inner child contaminates intimacy in relationships because he has no sense of his authentic self. The greatest wound a child can receive is the rejection of his authentic self. When a parent cannot affirm his child's feelings, needs, and desires, he rejects that child's authentic self. Then, a false self must be set up.