Quotes About Relationships

No man is an island entire to himself

What plagues people is not those who don't love them, but those who do.

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As Carl Jung once said, 'When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.' When our boys become adults, we become their inner situation. We become inner voices they often hear in their work, relationships and spiritual practice.

Boys often need us to give them more time than girls need, and they often need us to connect their feelings to objects in the outside world.

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.

People don't hire resumes. People hire people.

We live out in our everyday relationships what we believe about God. That is, there is a direct connection between what one believes and how one lives.

Make war by phone, make love by email.

The simple rule of thumb is, if they don't inspire you to be a better person and to live with integrity, honesty, openness, and courage, then let them go.

Sometimes we know people who are too wonderful for words. I am not one of them. Or you, for that matter, as you well know.

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers and fathers of their friends, parents from school. You'll see. That's the way it was for Bill and me. It's one of the many gifts of parenting.

Family it is not an important thing, it is everything.

As playwright Wilson Mizner observed, "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Most men believe deep down that all women, even those they see on television, are potential mates.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

Freddy left the business and went to work as a pilot with Trans World Airlines. At age twenty-three, he married a stewardess, and the couple had two children, Fred and Mary. Freddy seemed far happier than he had been under his father; Donald, however, couldn't help but pick on Freddy's run-of-the-mill ambitions, asking him, "What's the difference between what you do and driving a bus?

If you can't forgive someone you're close to for making a mistake, then why do apologies even exist?

Second, the other person is not the object of intentionality, strictly speaking; the self is not conscious of the other person as Other.[30]

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

The theory of six degrees of separation was never meant to see how many people we could find. It was a set of directions for how to find the people we have lost.

It seemed clear that people in love lived in constant jeopardy. They were either making love or making each other crazy.