Quotes About Relationships

Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.

No one is too far away to be cared for, or to care.

Whether the codependency/recovery people know it or not, parent bashing is a direct result of Freudian psychology.

Rich girls are a pain in the arse in the sack:

The human person, the human being, is not just an object among objects, not just a thing in the world. The human being is a being-in-the-world, a being-with-others, a being-for-others.

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

Feeling one "has"; love occurs.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me

Whoever says You does not have something; he has nothing. But he stands in relation.

Marriage, for instance, will never be given new life except by that out of which true marriage always arises, the revealing by two people of the Thou to one another. Out of this a marriage is built up by the Thou that is neither of the I's. This is the metaphysical and metapsychical factor of love to which feelings of love are mere accompaniments.

The basic word I-You can only be spoken with one's whole being. The basic word I-It can never be spoken with one's whole being.

Feelings are 'entertained'; love comes to pass. Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love.

Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.

Beziehung ist Gegenseitigkeit. Mein Du wirkt an mir, wie ich an ihm wirke. Unsre Schüler bilden uns, unsre Werke bauen uns auf. Der >>Böse<< wird offenbarend, wenn ihn das heilige Grundwort berührt. Wie werden wir von Kindern, wie von Tieren erzogen! Unerforschlich einbegriffen leben wir in der strömenden Allgegenseitigkeit.

Feelings one "has"; love occurs. Feelings dwell in man, but man dwells in his love.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.

All actual life is encounter.

Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling to the I in such a way as to have the Thou only for its " content," its object; but love is between I and Thou. The man who does not know this, with his very being know this, does not know love; even though he ascribes to it the feelings he lives through, experiences, enjoys, and expresses.

He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment over slights that had steeped for years.

Whatever the reasons, we never allow anyone else to know the whole of our personal history. I suppose we're afraid of what they might think of us. But there's more to it than that. We are terrified of what they might do with the knowledge.

We are all parasites; we humans, the greatest.