Quotes About Relationships

Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Marriage...a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.

Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.

It doesn't matter anyway, whether you've been asked proper or not. I guess I've heard of women who want fancy sweet talk and even rings and such, but I didn't take you for a woman who'd need that nonsense.

She sweetened her voice to molasses. "So no, thank you. I won't marry you. And I'd say you're well enough to tend your own house and feed yourself, even though that's women's work.

WHERE ONE OF THEM GOES, OTHER ONE FOLLOWS YOU INVITING LOVE HE ALSO BRINGING SORROWS. KATE

Renie was always engaged," said Judith dryly. "At one point, she was engaged to three guys at once, all with the same first name." Joe shrugged one broad shoulder. "Kept her from making tactless mistakes, anyway. Which one did she marry?" "None of them," answered Judith.

Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go.

It's never easy letting go. But if we don't learn the art of relinquishment, we'll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.

When we have difficult relationships, God often uses them as gifts in our lives—to shape us, conform us to His Son, and make us gutsier and stronger.

Sometimes dramatic people try to draw you into someone else's drama, and that never ends well. Interfering is like pulling on a dangerous dog's ears. Do it at your own peril.

When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives.

When I became a Christian as a teenager, I gathered a false belief to myself that my Christian friends would be my forever friends. Surely, since we both loved Jesus and followed Him, we would always be in each other's lives. No one would hurt the other -- because Jesus! It didn't take long for that theory of mine to be tested by reality.

Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

That's the crux of my prayer for you as you walk through difficult relationship -- that you would begin to see God's storytelling in your life even in the midst of pain and bewilderment.

This same Jesus, though, didn't say we had to be in relationship with everyone. We are not to 'throw [our] pearls to pigs.' (See Matthew 7:6.) He didn't deeply entrust his heart to Pharisees. You see him slipping through the throng of people bent on killing him. Often he withdrew from crowds in order to be with his Father. His is a story of connection with others, yes, but it's also a reminder that relationships don't come with an easy-to-understand blueprint.

But you're everything I want. Remember that. I love you, Lia. Not a title. And not because a piece of paper says I should. Because I do.

Love didn't end all at once, no matter how much you needed it to or how inconvenient it was. You couldn't command love to stop any more than a marriage document could order it to appear. Maybe love had to bleed away a drop at a time until your heart was numb and cold and mostly dead.