Quotes About Relationships

Do you realize there isn't a Gentile character in here who isn't slavishly in love with some Jew?

You can go to the dark side of the moon and back and see nothing more wonderful and strange than the way men and women manage to get together.

We love too late... Oh why, why may we never join hand to hand, or give back speech truly?

What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.

Virtue was no longer sought in temple or market place but in the home—one's own home, and then the homes of one's friends.

Love has its own ethics, which the deliberating will irrevocably offends.

Men are absolutely shits, but we get them in the end because we can suffer better. A woman can outsuffer a man every time.

My poor dumb mutt of a wife throws a better piece of ass backwards than you can manage frontwards

It is crucial to realize that your ability to form strong and loving bonds can betray you if you do not intentionally pace a new relationship.

A fulfilling relationship requires that the two partners be more concerned about giving than about receiving.

Research has found that satisfying relationships are characterized by a simple formula: two people mutually meeting each other's needs.

If your partner tells you about getting angry at a coworker and biting that person's head off, then you ought to wonder when that same attitude will be aimed at you.

Resolving your emotional necessities is the first step to avoiding a marriage to a jerk. It is also an indispensable step to avoid becoming the jerk in your marriage

you were sent into life with several pieces of misinformation about dealing with loss. The six we have identified so far are: Don't feel bad. Replace the loss. Grieve alone. Just give it time. Be strong for others. Keep busy. None of these ideas leads us to the actions of discovering and completing the unfinished emotions that accrue in all relationships.

We have a very simple belief that everyone involved in a divorce is a griever. That includes children, parents, siblings, and friends of the couple. This attitude makes it easy for us. We always know that the primary issue is unresolved grief.

Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. The lengths people go to — and the extremes and the conditions and the mental exercises and guilt and shame and happiness that everybody goes through — and what they'll do for sex is never-ending and mind-boggling and very interesting to me. And I don't think a lot of times people choose any of it.

In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.

He listened to his words fall as if from the mouth of another, and watched his father's face, which received those words as a stone receives the repeated blows of a fist.

Sincerity may not help us make friends, but it will help us keep them.

Abraham Lincoln. He once said that the best thing a man can do for his children is to love their mother.

I remain convinced to this day that compassion like that—sincerely caring for your players and maintaining an active interest in their lives, concerns, and motivations—is one of the most important qualities a coach can have.

There is also the professional mentor, a person whose success in his or her career can be a source of practical wisdom and inspiration. This success might be mea sured in material gain or far-reaching influence, or in lives touched and relationships fostered. These mentors can offer a model for good business, ethical practices, and effective work habits, and they often provide the motivation we need to seize whatever opportunities come our way.

If we are not true to ourselves, we cannot be true to others—our wife or husband, our family, our profession and colleagues

Your family is what counts, and you must always remember that as you get caught up in your own professional responsibilities.