Quotes About Relationships

This chapter provides a comprehensive definition of life scripts as a complex set of unconscious relational patterns based on physiological survival reactions, implicit experiential conclusions, explicit decisions, and/or self-regulating introjections, made under stress, at any developmental age, that inhibit spontaneity and limit flexibility in problem-solving, health maintenance and in relationship with people.

The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.

There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.

That may be great for a married couple, but I think it is a stupid idea for two people trying to get to know each other! If you are a young man trying to get to know a young girl, for heaven's sake, don't take her to a movie!

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. John Donne, Meditation XVII

further improvements in the quality of life no longer depend on further economic growth: the issue is now community and how we relate to each other.

Everybody wants to go to bed with everybody else, they're lined up for blocks, so I'll go to bed with you. They won't miss us.

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.

could not bear to think that they might love another woman . . . I dare not let them go to the embraces of anyone else . . .

A kind of affectionate racism prevailed among the delta gentry, they had kind, paternalistic feelings toward black people and a genuine appreciation for black culture, but they didn't want a black man dating their daughters or sitting down to eat dinner at their table, because that wasn't the way things were done or meant to be.

Gupta and Singh (1982) found that couples in Jaipur, India, who married for love reported diminished feelings of love if they'd been married for more than five years. By contrast, those who'd undertaken arranged marriages reported more love if they weren't newlyweds. These findings reveal that passionate love "cools" over time, and that there's scope for love to flourish within an arranged marriage.

Private relationships, intimate and otherwise, might be structured in many different ways, and the simple dichotomy between "single" and "married" does not do justice to what people might choose.

Self understanding helps us connect our own weaknesses to the weaknesses of others and forgive them.

If in this shadowland of life thou hast Found one true heart to love thee, hold it fast; Love it again, give all to keep it thine, For love like nothing in the world can last.

One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is meeting someone new. Giving a name to something is a way of knowing it.

Everyone has a secret place in his mind. Otherwise relationships would be impossible.

She sounded angry. That was the way she'd been as long as he'd known her. If she became ill, it irritated her. She was annoyed by sickness. She seemed to regard it as a personal affront.

Even though they fought, their fighting never turned them against each other. It always ended with them embracing and kissing, smiling, laughing.

The death of someone with whom a person has been long and closely associated leaves a literal vacuum in that person's life

Don't families stay together?" "Not necessarily," he told me. "Earth ties have less meaning here. Relationships of thought, not blood, are what count.

Siempre, a pesar de todo, había deseado encontrar a un semejante: hombre, mujer, niño, no importaba. Sin la incesante influencia de las masas, el sexo perdía rápidamente importancia. En cambio, la soledad seguía en primera línea.

They were completely devoted to each other. Except for us children, they seemed to have need for no one but each other. Not that they didn't see people. People liked them and wanted to see them, you know that; they were great friends with your Mom and Dad. But togetherness meant more to them than anything.

He was thinking it must be tough to be a woman. They were all needs and wants and wishes and the only real trade they had was going to bed.

What little we knew about grownups didn't seem to cover Grandma.