Quotes About Relationships

Love wasn't about numbers, Naomi realized then. It wasn't about selling yourself or wanting anything in return. It wasn't about hoping for safety. It was just— That purr.

Whatever happens in a romance novel doesn't always have to stay in one.

The best way to compliment someone is frequently. —ANONYMOUS

Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.

If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.

One of the best ways to get an idea of how a woman feels about being a woman is to take a look at how she treats other women.

The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Love needs time, and time is the air love breathes, and people have no time.

a relationship isn't good because it lasts a lifetime. A relationship is good if it gives you the wisdom of a lifetime.

People, including those who love us, only do what we allow them to do. They only suck up the energy we give.

Often we are so intent on being our mate's everything that nothing else matters until, one day, we wake up and realize we no longer know our own purpose.

Allow yourself to envision us together," he'd told her just last week. Stella shook her head. No, there was no future with someone she was ashamed to be seen with in public.

When we turned right on Thirty-fifth Street our suffix came along. By the time we rolled to the curb in front of Wolfe's house there wasn't even hyphen between us.

Can Mr. Wolfe help it if an attractive young fellow insists on coming to cry on his shoulder?

When I told [Lily Rowan] I wouldn't be able to make it to the Polo Grounds tomorrow, she began to call Wolfe names, and thought of several new ones that showed her wide experience and fine feeling for words.

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

I made a note to quit trying to understand women and start trying to understand men.

though it is a form of intimacy I don't care for, since I have a tendency to fight shy of bonds.

You are headstrong and I am magisterial. Our tolerance of each other is a constantly recurring miracle.

Some day, Archie, when I decide you are no longer worth tolerating, you will have to marry a woman of very modest mental capacity to get an appropriate audience for your wretched sarcasms.

It is undoubtedly rare for a man not to soon grow tired of a woman, but it is impossible to maintain that everything rare is undesirable.

Minds are not changed merely through acquiring data or information (if that were the case it would take no effort to convince Americans that Obama is, in fact, a Christian). Rather, it is solely through the slow and steady building of personal relationships that one discovers the fundamental truth that all people everywhere have the same dreams and aspirations, that all people struggle with the same fears and anxieties.

You are 100% responsible for getting your needs met, but you cannot meet them alone

When you are on a feeling frequency of love, then only people who are on the same feeling frequency as you are can come into your life.