Quotes About Relationships

You are my life, but you are not my purpose.

Lulabell realized that to Beto, she was nothing more than an inventory of body parts and labor-intensive regional dishes.

You've got to learn to leave the table when love's no longer being served.

being unable to initiate and maintain satisfying and enduring relationships; being unable to say no and stick to it; and other negative behaviors and attitudes with others as well as with the self-aborbed parent. Some try to work through their issues or concerns with mental health professionals, but find that it is just about impossible to adequately describe what their formative years were like.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

A man could love only what he respected, not pitied.

The whole point about 'romance' is that the woman is somehow always smaller, more diminutive in a cute sort of way, while the man is adult.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they'd have been anyway.

Garry Essendine]: That is no prostitute, but the wife of one of my best friends!

Esta Pérsia parecia tentar fazer de cada homem um cornudo, à vez

We want relationships to last. We want families to stay together. We like it when the good guy wins. Fairy tales. I'm describing fairy tales.

For a time it seemed their marriage would be just another houseplant that had failed to thrive, choked to death by the lack of money and the death of dreams

Of the true mysteries of the universe . . . the one we may never solve is the mystery of other people. This is the underlying subject of all fiction--Who ARE you, and why are you different from me?--from a NYT Book Review review of Since We Fell, by Dennis Lehane

Self-determination theory," he intones calmly, as if the moderator had never spoken, "states that human beings need three basic things in order to feel content. Number one, they need to feel competent at what they do. Number two, they need to feel authentic in their lives, and number three, they need to feel connected to others.

God is unhappy. You should know that. He created us to love each other, to be the miracle, not to swipe right.

Jack Canfield taught me two of the most brilliant questions I've ever seen in human relations. 'On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate our relationship? What can I do to make it a 10?

Appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, most relationships do not end suddenly. This is true of friends, romantic partners, and business associates alike. When someone claims to be blindsided, it's usually because they had their eyes closed.

Indeed, sometimes, if he was sufficiently shitfaced, Edward would even refer to me as Daddy.

She forgot the three F's," Julia whispered to Sara Moulton: "Feed 'em, fuck 'em, and flatter 'em.

I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.

The great Tolstoy wrote of families. He said that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

People will forget who you are, what you said, but never how you made them feel