Quotes About Relationships

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

When you love someone you leave every possibility open to them, and in spite of all the memories of the past you are ready to be surprised, again and again surprised, at how different they are, how various, not a finished image.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Freunde müssen einander verstehen um Freunde zu bleiben. Brüder sind immer Brüder.

Es ist bemerkenswert, dass wir gerade von dem Menschen, den wir lieben, am mindesten aussagen können, wie er sei.

Being alone is the only possible condition for me, since I don't want to make a woman unhappy, and women have a tendency to become unhappy. Being alone isn't always fun, you can't always be in form. Moreover, I have learned from experience that once you are not in form women don't remain in form either; as soon as they are bored they start complaining you've no feeling.

She thought it stupid of a woman to want to be understood by a man; the man (said Hanna) wants the woman to be a mystery, so that he can be inspired and excited by his own incomprehension.

I called her a sentimentalist and artsy-craftsy. She called me Homo Faber.

There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.

Kirk Douglas had engineered his social life with the cynical goal of meeting the rich and powerful, he would have ignored this Lauren Bacall. But so cynical and narrow-focused an approach isn't likely to produce good luck. The lucky personality gets to know everybody in sight: the rich and the poor, the famous the humble, the sociable and even the friendless and the cranky.

If you try to bring 'teen drama ' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

We don't know very well those we love But I understand them fairly well Being all these people myself I who am however but a baboon.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.

When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement? Of course not. What will matter then will be people. If relationships will matter most then, shouldn't they matter most now?

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

A woman's mind and spirit are no better than those of the man she lies under in the night.

Filling a bookcase is like gathering a social circle.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.