Quotes About Relationships

Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

Oh! How like a woman," Davey said. "Sex, my dear Sadie, is not a sovereign cure for everything, you know. I only wish it were.

And though many women might enjoy the offering of such compliments, I did not want him to love me based on temporal things like a smile or voice or presence, things that could vanish through mood or an unexpected cloud. He must love me for the sake of love alone . . .

Better for my heart to be untested then to experience a counterfeit to this love we have between us.

Dishonesty and hedging the truth are too much work. I realize some may take offense, but I've determined that I don't require the friendship of those who do.

The Rosetta Stone of Christian social thought is the Trinity.

Only a God of love is fully personal. Thus the Trinity is crucial for maintaining a fully personal concept of God. As theologian Robert Letham writes, "Only a God who is triune can be personal.… A solitary monad cannot love and, since it cannot love, neither can it be a person." Therefore it "has no way to explain or even to maintain human personhood.

For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.

In its descriptions of a family trying to find suitable mates for three sisters, The Makioka Sisters by Junichir ? Tanizaki brings to mind the novels of Jane Austen and Anton Chekhov.

The challenge today is to create new structural supports for the practice of celibacy—structures that integrate singles into our families and churches again, especially older singles who are often overlooked.

Two Princeton sociologists conclude, "If we were asked to design a system for making sure that children's basic needs were met, we would probably come up with something quite similar to the two-parent ideal." Those who respect science the most should also be the most pro-marriage.

I can't let her hurt me again. My pain it too great. I can't forgive her.

She explains that siblings are often the least supportive of anyone because even though the same parent has also damaged them, they are often in so much denial that they are threatened by your attempts to recover

How devastating to be hated by one's own mother.

Your mother has had a rough life," Grandmother pleaded her daughter's case. "You should feel sorry for her instead of making things tougher for her. Bill was mean and cruel and much worse than Ed. The problem with you Nancy, is you're not forgiving," she concluded.

When we have been betrayed in our most basic human relationship—and that trust is never restored—how can we learn to trust ourselves to respond appropriately to betrayal?

Nurturing family relationships were outside my realm of experience.

Each time my young brother walked near Smokey, the man reached out and smacked the side of Brandon's head with the back of his hand. Mom refused to even look up from her newspaper as Brandon pleaded with her for help.

My brothers did not have the courage to risk losing Mom's love, by facing the damage her betrayal had done to us. I was already aware that I did not have my mother's unconditional love.

I never really knew her," I said. "But you loved her," Ida answered, and again I wasn't sure if she meant that as an accusation or comfort. Was it less important or more important to know someone than to love them?

you can write about sociopaths, you can read all about them, and chances are you will not recognize one when he is taking you in.

Raised in an era when women were valued for their sexuality, solicitude , and silence, the eighteen year old stood loyally by Arnold's side.

She had difficulty accepting adultery despite its prevalence among high-born men of the era.