Quotes About Relationships

As we are ready to give ear and credit to those we love, he believed all she said. From this time he became distant and reserved towards me, shunning my presence as much as possible; whereas, before, he was open and communicative to me as to his sister… What I had dreaded, I now perceived had come to pass. This was the loss of his favor and good opinion; to preserve which I had studied to gain his confidence by a ready compliance with his wishes.

I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

We can do without things easier than we can do without people.

We may not have computers or telephones or television, but we have books and conversations. And we talk to each other in person, not through e-mails and texts.

Look at her and Cat—and yes, Gabe, before he had turned into Darth

L'image de ta Berlinoise en train de flotter d'un lit à l'autre, ne m'attire pas comme elle a l'air de t'attirer. A la longue, on s'en laisse : on est tellement perméable qu'on se sent devenir transparent, et quand on rencontre (par exemple) un couple qui vit ensemble et dans le même village depuis cinquante ans, on en pleurerait...

Deux êtres qui s'aiment n'en font qu'un : lequel ? »

Pero el relato -el hecho de relacionar acontecimientos y personas en una historia- es precisamente lo que da sentido a la existencia humana.

No, I stayed home. And yet, in one way or another -- by way of telephone conversations, letters, photographs, or simply memories -- all of these worlds were part of my day today.

Things got said, the kinds of embarrassing things that don't go away. Tempers ran high. My paternal grandfather's teak desk required a new panel, which never quite matched the others. Intellectual debate can be very hard on furniture.

Gail smiled. "A gracious concession. We're not much alike, dear heart." "Nothing alike." "So why—" "Oh, God, not this," Nan said. "Every lover I've ever had has run this program on me eventually. 'Why us?' Why not? And don't go thinking that by that I mean we're just a one night's roll-and-tickle, Gail. I like you. I just don't want to analyze why. Ask me something else.

Holding hands, hugging, or just sitting companionably together is an important way to continue to communicate.

The fact is, successful relationships and healthy cultures are not built on the claiming of rights but on the yielding of rights.

Millions of professing Christians are deceived; they are walking in ways that simply are not biblical. Their values, their responses, their relation ships, their choices, and their priorities reveal that they have bought into the lie of the Enemy and embraced the world's way of thinking.

Love is not a feeling; it is a commitment to act in the best interests of another.

Poet David Whyte once said that if we're living the life we truly want to live, someone we love will feel betrayed

The parents in the room know that texting is actually the best way to communicate with your kids. It might be the only way to communicate with your kids.

Many patients are so terrified of emotional intimacy that they are driven over and over again to provoke crises that allow them to distance with impunity (see Hedges, 2000).

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

God's Love does exactly the same thing. It's an unconditional giving of yourself for another with no strings attached.

If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all.

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.