Quotes About Relationships

Conocer es perdonar, dicen. No, perdonar es conocer. Primero el amor, el conocimiento después.

Ya tengo un objetivo, una finalidad en esta vida —se decía—, y es conquistar a esta muchacha o que ella me conquiste. Y es lo mismo. En amor lo mismo da vencer que ser vencido.

En esta España de calzonazos —decía— los curas manejan a las mujeres y las mujeres a los hombres...

Cuando la vio gozar, sufriendo al darle su primer hijo, es cuando comprendió cómo es el amor más fuerte que la vida y que la muerte, y domina la discordia de estas; cómo el amor hace morirse a la vida y vivir la muerte; cómo él vivía ahora la muerte de su Rosa y se moría en su propia vida.

Porque la calle forma un tejido en que se entrecruzan miradas de deseo, de envidia, de desdén, de compasión, de amor, de odio, viejas palabras cuyo espíritu quedó cristalizado, pensamientos, anhelos, toda una tela misteriosa que envuelve las almas de los que pasan.

El matrimonio es un experimento… psicológico; la paternidad lo es… patológico.

Y siguieron los dos, Augusto y Eugenia, en direcciones contrarias, cortando con sus almas la enmarañada telaraña espiritual de la calle. Porque la calle forma un tejido en que se entrecruzan miradas de deseo, de envidia, de desdén, de compasión, de amor, de odio, viejas palabras cuyo espíritu quedó cristalizado, pensamientos, anhelos, toda una tela misteriosa que envuelve las almas de los que pasan.

Y es más triste un amor que nace y se cría sobre la tumba de otro y como una planta que se alimenta, como de mantillo, de la podredumbre de otra planta.

El amor precede al conocimiento, y este mata a aquel.

La mujer sólo ama a su hombre mientras no piense como ella, es decir, mientras piense.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Es algo que suele suceder con los muertos: lamentar no haberles dicho a tiempo cuánto los amabas, lo necesarios que te eran. Cuando alguien imprescindible se va de tu lado, vuelves los ojos a tu interior y no encuentras más que banalidad, porque los vivos, comparados con los muertos, resultamos insoportablemente banales.

Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner

Lovers who only pursue the joys of visible flesh have never succeeded in becoming united, nor in loving each other. When they lie side by side in their beds, they are nevertheless far apart, separated by an impassable thread of air, by the sword of forgetfulness; because they will never dream the same dream. Each of them pursues his solitary road, without his companion. Only when lovers are capable of dreaming the same dream are they truly Lovers. When they love one another in their dreams.

The roots of interpersonal conflict are often an excessive concern for oneself, and an inability to pay attention to the needs of others. It is sad to see how often people ruin a relationship because they refuse to recognize that they could serve their own interests best by helping others achieve theirs.

In an integrated family, each person's goals matter to all others. In

True, most married men are convinced that their lives are dedicated to the family, and from a material standpoint this might be true. But it takes more than food in the fridge and two cars in the garage to keep a family going.

the life of average people, we find the other side of the glittering coin of gregariousness: the most painful events are also those that involve relationships. Unfair bosses and rude customers make us unhappy on the job. At home an uncaring spouse, an ungrateful child, and interfering in-laws are the prime sources of the blues. How is it possible to reconcile the fact that people cause both the best and the worst times?

It is in the company of friends that we can most clearly experience the freedom of the self and learn who we really are. The ideal of a modern marriage is to have one's spouse as a friend.

If we are learning to be more assertive, we might inadvertently alienate our friends.

family must be both differentiated and integrated. Differentiation means that each person is encouraged to develop his or her unique traits, maximize personal skills, set individual goals. Integration, in contrast, guarantees that what happens to one person will affect all others.

It is probably true that humans, like the majority of mammalian species, are not monogamous by nature. It is impossible for partners not to grow bored unless they work to discover new challenges in each other's company, and learn appropriate skills for enriching the relationship. Initially physical challenges alone are enough to sustain flow, but unless romance and genuine care also develop, the relationship will grow stale.

Friendships allow us to express parts of our beings that we seldom have the opportunity to act out otherwise.

Such individuals lead vigorous lives, are open to a variety of experiences, keep on learning until the day they die, and have strong ties and commitments to other people and to the environment in which they live. They enjoy whatever they do, even if tedious or difficult; they are hardly ever bored, and they can take in stride anything that comes their way.