Quotes About Relationships

For those who have found love in the strangest places, in people who are polar opposites in terms of profession and interests, and believe that happily ever after comes from finding common ground.

Liz: "Talking is overrated." Gavin: "Now you sound like a guy." Liz: "That's why you like me." Gavin: "Because you're a guy?

She could say 'no' quicker than any woman I ever knew, and none of them ever meant 'yes'.

Love needs expression, Captain Geary, or doubts grow amid the silence. Doubts of the other and doubts of yourself.

What do you think is the most important thing you learned in the last couple of years?" "That no one can ever win an argument with the woman they love

Real love is hard. Forgetting yourself for another. Love is like fighting uphill against all of your worst instincts.

The measure of who you are," Mari had told her, "is how well you treat people you don't have to treat well.

It's funny how much you don't realize about the people you've spent your whole life with, isn't it?

We spend all of our time doing that stuff instead of talking to the people right next to us, the people who know us. I don't know them and they don't know me. How can you find yourself when you're part of an infinite crowd and everybody is yelling?

love makes people delusional, Jason! You aren't seeing me anymore. Your delusions are causing you to see some illusion of me that is far, far better than I could ever actually be.

My father always said that false love is an attempt to force another person to be subjugated to your own illusion, to make that person nothing but a part of you that you can direct and control. But real love means the other person's illusion is more important than yours. You put them first. Like you put me first.

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

To be truly rich includes not only financial freedom but developing rich, meaningful relationships, enriching your health, and enjoying a rich balance between your career and your personal life.

IT TAKES A LOT OF LIFE EXPERIENCE TO SEE WHY SOME RELATIONSHIPS LAST AND OTHERS DO NOT. BUT WE DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR A CRISIS TO GET AN IDEA OF A PARTICULAR RELATIONSHIP. OUR BEHAVIOR IN LITTLE EVERYDAY INCIDENTS TELLS US A GREAT DEAL." —Eknath Easwaran

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

If you just keep on doing the same things that you've always done, what will your lifestyle be like five years from now, ten years from now, twenty years from now? What words will describe your future financial picture if you don't make any changes? What about your health, relationships and the amount of time you have off for fun? Will you be enjoying a lot more freedom or still be working too many hours a week? AVOID

In every area of our lives, the three things that most need to be shared are resentments that have built up, the unmet needs and demands that underlie those resentments, and appreciations.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. George Eliot

To create a balanced and successful life, your vision needs to include the following seven areas: work and career, finances, recreation and free time, health and fitness, relationships, personal goals, and contribution to the larger community.

If you want to be successful, you have to take 100% responsibility for everything that you experience in your life. This includes the level of your achievements, the results you produce, the quality of your relationships, the state of your health and physical fitness, your income, your debts, your feelings—everything!

Holding on to anger and resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

love we give and receive is all that matters and all that is remembered. Suffering disappears - love remains

Things are a lot easier when people know you're human. -Gerald Moore

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. -Victor Borge