Quotes About Relationships

A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. ~Thomas à Kempis

I realized it's the "little stuff" in life that's important, like a phone call from a friend and a good laugh.

be yourself, be simple and always go for long-term gain with a win-win approach. As

El amor cura a las personas; tanto a las que lo dan como a las que lo reciben. Karl Menninger

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us." That was all. And that was everything.

relationships. For example, if the S&P was moving in an inverse lockstep to the bonds, and bonds were down for the day, but the S&P was not responding on the upside, it would tell me I should sell the S&P.

Guys are open books; wives can read them without breaking a sweat. They're just little boys who love being bad.

Three months later, I was playing the role of grieving widow. Lyle had been caught in flagrante with his paramour when they were incinerated in their love nest. I earned bushels of sympathy from friends and acquaintances, who, after a suitable time, hinted that I must have known something was up; everyone else did. I played the shocked and unsuspecting wife role to a level I thought deserved a Tony or even an Oscar.

Why bother? Why in the world would I need a new man in my life at this time? Such foolishness. I might get a dog, though, one of those cute Shih Tzus or a Pomeranian. Their messes are easier to dispose of than those of men, who are sloppier. I would have my dog neutered, though, so I wouldn't have to deal with those foolish impulses when another dog strolls by and they do that silly tail sniffing. How gross.

I didn't know that love is not about what we do, but who we are, convincing others of our love for them...and about who loves us.

God created you to be—a gift of His love to others.

And when you're strong, you can't convince people of your love for them.

What reveals a genuine love for God is my ability to convince my family and others of my love for them.

They say love is blind, but for me it's the opposite. It makes me see the good in him, too, which is why I can never hate him.' --Mom (Fran)

When I was first getting to know her we were in a viewing room at the funeral parlor looking at a new line of cigar-shaped caskets that were called "Time Capsules of the Future.

Of course I still love my grandma even after all the awful stuff she did to me, which is scary that you can love someone who is not nice. I guess that is what getting better will do to a person: make you forgive people who have been mean to you.

Still, he was another guy in the house, and Mom was mine first, and her being my mom is a thousand times more important than her being some guy's girlfriend. So even though Booth wasn't trying to run the show, he was still in the way.

Elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than they are shrews.

one of the cutest facts you will ever read, sea otters hold each other's paws whilst they are asleep so they don't drift apart from each other. Elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than they are shrews.

Friendship and sex were really all she wanted from men these days.

She had always given too much of her life over to relationships, and they'd never quite worked out. Now she was simplifying her life in favor of her career. It gave her a sense of control to watch herself succeeding, and a great deal of satisfaction.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.