Quotes About Relationships

A prime minister can chose his friends and his Cabinet but not his relatives. Part Chairman Lord Williams

these days there was little room left in Hal's life for his younger brother, and Charlie felt—what did he feel, deep down, when he allowed himself to be honest? Angry, stinking bloody one-bottle-a-time furious—not with Hal, of course, but with life. It hadn't worked out for him, and he didn't understand why.

It was all very well growing old disgracefully and running your umbrella along life's railings, but when you'd annoyed as many people as possible and told yourself you'd thoroughly enjoyed it, you still had to return home to a cold hearth and deal with it on your own.

At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.

She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy.

I loved those two people. - Graham on the Clintons

Most salespeople think that selling is "closing." It isn't. Selling is opening.

We must love God more than the world, yet if we truly love God, we will also love the world, on his behalf. God matters more than the world, but because he loves it, the world now matters.

One might think one is loving God; the real test is whether it leads to a love of people

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.

The key to loving relationships, research has found, is what's called "emotional responsiveness." This is just what it sounds like: being there for the people around you, not physically, but in an emotionally engaged way. This applies not just to romantic relationships, but to friendships as well.

By? te? draniem, podst?pnym uwodzicielem, który zostawi j? ze z?amanym sercem.

One's desire to be alone, biologists have found, is partially genetic and to some degree measurable. If you have low levels of the pituitary peptide oxytocin—sometimes called the master chemical of sociability—and high quantities of the hormone vasopressin, which may suppress your need for affection, you tend to require fewer interpersonal relationships.

If you have low levels of the pituitary peptide oxytocin—sometimes called the master chemical of sociability—and high quantities of the hormone vasopressin, which may suppress your need for affection, you tend to require fewer interpersonal relationships.

else. One's desire to be alone, biologists have found, is partially genetic and to some degree measurable. If you have low levels of the pituitary peptide oxytocin—sometimes called the master chemical of sociability—and high quantities of the hormone vasopressin, which may suppress your need for affection, you tend to require fewer interpersonal relationships.

We didn't feel the need to communicate everything all the time," Chris continued. "We're not emotionally bleeding all over each other. We're not touchy-feely.

Do not burn bridges, put a toll on either end.

One recalls the literary writer who, after grasping a story of a Mars voyage as a metaphor for isolation and the precariousness of relationships, realized that at a deeper, more subtle level it might even be a story about an actual trip to Mars!

Proust laat ook zien dat er geen betere manier om anderen te misleiden bestaat dan eerst jezelf te misleiden: 'Men liegt het hele leven door, met name tegen geliefden, en bovenal tegen de vreemdeling wiens minachting ons de meeste pijn zou doen: zichzelf.

Since everything is connected to everything else, in order to understand anything it is necessary to understand everything.

The common challenges of earning a living, maintaining a relationship and ageing are becoming battlegrounds of existential angst and self-loathing in a culture that demands conspicuous consumption, high-octane partnerships and perpetual youth.

That was the last and greatest demand that Heisenberg made on his friendship with you. To be understood when he couldn't understand himself. And that was the last and greatest act of friendship for Heisenberg that you performed in return. To leave him misunderstood." Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

30) Wrong ending? J.K. Rowling herself admits that she regrets not pairing Harry and Hermione together at the end of the series. If she could go back she wouldn't have paired Ron and Hermione with each other.

Give it to Ron's brother