Quotes About Relationships

I think that's why so many couples fight, because they want their partners to validate them and affirm them, and if they don't get that, they feel as though they're going to die. And so they lash out. But it's a terrible thing to wake up and realize the person you just finished crucifying wasn't Jesus.

I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to.

When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn't good for a person to be alone.

It's one thing to impress people, but it's another to love them.

She only knows what he says and what he does, not what he thinks and what he feels.

We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people... That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.

If you flatter somebody it will go to their heads. If you love them it will go to their hearts.

Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.

Real love stories don't have dictators, they have participants.

We tend to collect people with similar life journeys for that very reason; they make us feel like we have a tribe.

What Value Will Your Customer Receive if They Do Business With You?

It's funny what happens to you when part of your heart gets born inside somebody else.

the stuff you share on a first date should be short, enticing, and exclusively customer-centric.

Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.

If we want to connect with customers, we have to stop blasting them with noise.

WE WILL NEVER FEEL loved until we drop the act, until we're willing to show our true selves to the people around us.

Finally, when I finished rambling, he said, "Don, all relationships are teleological." I asked him what the word teleological meant. "It means they're going somewhere," Al said. "All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.

After all, to love somebody is to give them the power to hurt you, and nobody can hurt you if you're the only one writing the script. But it doesn't work. Controlling people are the loneliest people in the world.

Example: Many families struggle to spend time together, but at Acorn Family Camp time stands still and families create connections that last a lifetime. Can you see the difference? When the three components connect, the story resolves and the hearer gets that little jolt of pleasure that comes with clarity.

You become like the people you interact with. And if your friends are living boring stories, you probably will too.

The same is true in social relationships. Commitment in a relationship takes time.

Rushed Relationships Are Not Healthy

When I met couples whose marriages were thriving after thirty and forty years, none of them were riding an emotional roller coaster of passion and then resentment. Instead, they loved each other as an act of their conscious will. They were more in control of their love than their "love" was in control of them.

But then she said something I thought was wise. She said she had married a guy, and he was just a guy. And that freed her to really love him as a guy, not as an ultimate problem solver. And because her husband believed she was just a girl, he was free to really love her too. Neither needed the other to make everything okay. They were simply content to have good company through life's conflicts. I thought that was beautiful.