Quotes About Relationships

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.

dimensión social de la existencia humana. En un pasaje famoso afirma: «Las relaciones entre nosotros son como un arco de piedra, que se caerá si las piedras no se apoyan mutuamente entre ellas, y que se erige precisamente de esa manera».

Y tendremos que considerarnos afortunados si tenemos cerca a amigos o seres queridos: querrá decir que hemos sido personas lo bastante decentes como para mantener tales relaciones con el resto de la humanidad. Los que nos rodean no pueden curar nuestra enfermedad o salvarnos de la muerte, pero pueden acompañarnos durante una parte del camino, reconfortándonos antes de que lleguemos allí.

The fact that our qualities are relational has ethical implications. Since there is no "me" that is completely independent of my relationships, I live well to the extent that I do a good job at my relationships.

Conversely, we do not need innumerable friends: according to the anthropologist Robin Dunbar, the human brain can only process approximately 150 interpersonal relations. This is known as Dunbar's number, and it's about the size of a small tribe.

You cannot choose your family, but you may have to remind yourself that you love them, because you do (whether you like it or not).

In contrast, Confucians hold that we should show compassion to all human beings, but we have special obligations to certain individuals because of the specific relationships we have with them, relationships that make us who we are—family, community, and friendship. So part of the justification for differentiated care is the special debts we acquire through the relationships that help define us.

People look at interracial couples through their own, distorting racial lens. It doesn't matter what form they take.

De qué tengo miedo? De ti, en fin, de mi sin ti.

I don't want there to be things you "love about me", I want you to love "all of me".

Y cuanto mas intensamente ames, más intenso será el dolor futuro.

People may be fascinated by your wounded heart, but that won't make them love you for who you are.

Je ne veux pas que tu aimes "ça en moi", je veux que tu aimes "moi tout entier".

Jamás hubiera creído que es tan complicado mantener a nuestro lado a la persona que más queremos y deseamos en el mundo.

Tout le plaisir et toute la joie que l'amour peut faire ressentir se paient un jour ou l'autre en souffrances. Et plus on aime fort, plus la douleur à venir sera décuplée. Tu connaîtras le manque, puis les affres de la jalousie, de l'incompréhension, la sensation de rejet et d'injustice.

Ella se había esmerado en que cupiese todo dentro de la caja. Por supuesto, no todo cabía. Porque aquellos años de vida en común no había forma de meterlos ni siquiera en un camión pesado.

A pinch from a friend hurts more than a blow from an enemy.

A step towards love is a mile towards joy.

A truthful enemy is better than a deceitful friend.

An ounce of love is greater than a ton of passion.

Beatings from a friend are better than kisses from an enemy.