Quotes About Relationships

I always had to resist the urge to go to him like a wife, as if we'd already been a couple for a hundred thousand lifetimes. Caveman and cavewoman. King and queen. Nuns

faces are disfigured with love

It's okay; I know you want them to look at you. Who? Men. No, I don't. If you do that, then I can't be with you anymore. This was, in a way, the most romantic thing she had ever said to me. It implied that we were living together not because we had grown up together and were the only people we knew, but because of something else. Because we both didn't want men to look at me.

I ran a bath. Just before I stepped in the tub, I heard the front door close and froze in midstep; she was gone. Sometimes she did this. In the moments where other couples would fight or come together, she left me.

The subtitle of the book was Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships. I was working through it, word by word. So far I had done Keeping and was just starting on Love. I worried that by the time I got to Committed and Relationships, I would have forgotten Keeping. Not to mention Alive and all the other words.

In truth, I had not yet learned how to hate anyone but my parents. I was actually just standing there in love. I was not even really standing; if she had walked away suddenly, I would have fallen.

Except she wasn't like a husband from the 1950s because she didn't bring home the bacon.

But Ed [the family counselor] wasn't fazed; in fact, he suggested the dynamic had served each of us well. Something in the way he said this gave me the feeling that the dynamic was moving on, perhaps down the block, where it would serve some other confused family. And we would be left dynamic-less, four people alone with all the wrong feelings for one another.

I was still happy to sit there beside him, but that is only because I have very, very low expectations of most people, and he had now become Most People.

And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled?

Cea mai minunat? femeie din lume este cea care te iube?te cu adev?rat ?i pe care o iube?ti cu adev?rat. Nimic altceva nu conteaz?.

Nu poÅ£i iubi niciodat? doi oameni în acelaÅŸi timp. IubeÅŸti pe rând, când pe unul, când pe altul.

Atunci am înÈ›eles c? nimic nu dureaz? în suflet, c? cea mai verificat? încredere poate fi anulat? de un singur gest, c? cele mai sincere posesiuni nu dovedesc niciodat? nimic, c?ci È™i sinceritatea poate fi repetat?, cu altul, cu alÈ›ii, c?, în sfârÈ™it, totul se uit? sau se poate uita.

anyone who's ever lost a parent, child, lover, spouse, or close friend, knows that grief is one of the most powerful emotional forces there is—powerful enough to shatter the self we've carefully constructed.

Beware of subjects who are nobodies, Of whose plotting one is not aware. Trust not a brother, know not a friend. Make no intimates, it is worthless. When you lie down, guard your heart yourself.

When you drink with a drunkard. Take when his heart is content. THE INSTRUCTION ADDRESSED TO KAGEMNI Papyrus Prisse, pp. 1-2 Fragment

A man regards his son as his enemy.

Dan wanted me to stay. I wanted Elf to stay. Everyone in the whole world was fighting with somebody to stay. When Richard Bach wrote "If you love someone, set them free" he can't have been directing his advice at human beings.

My dad loved the shit out of her and hardly ever knew what to say to her and she loved the shit out right back out of him and filled the silent part of their lives with books and coffee and other things.

?ovjek od sebe stvori ?ovjeka, a da ne bude tu?a spužva.

She loved him for his own sake, and therefore she would rather have suffered his absence if he flourished than to have enjoyed his presence if he languished; her sorrow over his avoidable languishing would overshadow her delight in his presence. For a lover, it is more blessed to give than to receive, even when giving pierces the lover's heart.

You can learn a whole lot from the earth , that the lord has blessed us with . When pulling the grass up by it's roots, you can see that it isn't greener on the other side . Meaning we should always be faithful in all that we do including The relationships we have with others.

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.