Quotes About Relationships

Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but it must be awful for kids who don't get along with anybody. We're different from our parents, a completely different species from our teachers. And kids who are one grade apart you are in a different world altogether. In other words, we're basically surrounded by enemies and have to make it on our own.

After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.

You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love.

How had he become her every moment? How had a man become her whole life? How could a person consume all her attention? She didn't know how it had happened. She wasn't the sort of woman that gives her life away to anyone. Her life was too important to give to one man. Above all, her life was not her own but belonged to the world, which she wanted to change.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

We could not learn love in the abstract any more than we could learn patience and the other cardinal virtues. Just as we cannot know the "fellowship of his sufferings" without suffering, we also come to know real fellowship with our fellowmen only by serving them.

One of the ways, therefore, we will be "proved herewith" is our determination as to whether or not we love others enough to give and to receive such vital communications. We may quickly say that communicating thusly with those close to us is difficult; indeed, it is, but with whom else is it really possible? Are not the people proximate to us our tiny portion of humanity, given to us by God as our social stewardship?

El hermano mayor se encuentra en una posición superior de juicio hacia los demás. Podemos encerrar a alguien en una prisión pensando: "Es así, nunca cambiará". Al etiquetar a los demás, nos damos una razón para retirarnos de la relación. Los muros de la prisión que construimos están edificados para protegernos.

Es posible que no te sientas cómodo lidiando con los problemas de la persona o con la forma en que se relaciona contigo. Puede ser demasiado controladora o manipuladora para ti. Asegúrate de que el Señor haya enviado a esa persona y de que no estés asumiendo más de aquello para lo que estás preparado.

The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

the fear of failure, the fear of being imperfect (perfectionism), and the fear of impossible expectations (being overwhelmed) that prevent us from acting on and attaining humanly possible goals and relationships.

People who find dating confusing and bewildering almost always lack familiarity with themselves.

When two people fail to overlap on anything really important, all kinds of problems can develop.

Men and women who know themselves well stand an excellent chance of selecting a mate well suited to them.

My view of "attraction," then, involves a high degree of overlap of their experience with a real person and the wished-for image in their heads.

Instead of bringing people to church so that we can then bring them to Christ, let's bring Christ to people where they live.

The church is at its best in two's or three's-not in two or three hundreds or two or three thousands. "Where two or three are gathered together, there am I in the midst of them.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

The art of love is who you share it with.

In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you'll never see again.

Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.