Quotes About Relationships

Places ain't home. People is. Bricks and chairs is nothing.

Grief is the price we pay for having loved.

When you're in love with someone, you want to talk about every single thing in existence with them- while simultaneously saying nothing and just enjoying their presence.

How are you treating the people around you? In God's eyes, that's an indicator of your true spiritual condition. For a New Testament perspective, see James 2:14–18.

Sadly, Solomon's wisdom fails him, as he marries seven hundred women, many of them foreigners who turn his heart to idols.

Afternoon tea needn't stand on ceremony. Anything that becomes more important than sweet fellowship, whether lace or linen or the china itself, is pretense. How much more we enjoy life when the pretenses are discarded!

If he's the person i think he is, he'll handle it just right" Tarah had said. "If not, your better off without him.

Lately she'd been charting Bobby's moods like a meteorologist watching tropical storms. Something was bothering him, and he wasn't talking.

Sure. I've been involved with a couple women who should have been committed.

Four Horsemen: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling.

Add that to love, Mr. Lassiter. That's what we all need. Love and loyalty.

If you can't keep a promise to a loved one, you probably aren't going to keep the loved one, either.

So what's your definition?" "Two people who just have to be together," he replied without hesitation. "Two people who are not complete when they're apart. They're lovers and best friends, too. There's lust and laughter, and they can't imagine being with anyone else." "So Steve Solomon believes in romantic love?

8. Love is chemistry and

As Plautus said, lupus est homo homini. Man is a wolf to man. Inhumanity is often at its worst inside the family.

The Four Horsemen that destroy relationships. Criticism. Contempt. Defensiveness. Stonewalling.

we must engage people relationally, heart to heart and life on life. I don't think anyone is truly won to Christ by beating them in an argument or arousing their curiosity and giving them a free meal. You have to win their heart. Winning the heart requires life-on-life sharing in view of Jesus, who became incarnate and gave his life for us.

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

Loving means losing control of our schedule, our money, and our time. When we love we cease to be the master and become a servant.

It would take me the better part of growing up to understand that intimacy, more than sex or even sexual orientation, was the universal battleground, and no easier for straight than gay.

If it's true that you have to love yourself before you can love someone else, then I suppose a certain self-regard must've kept me above water during my decade of drowning alone. But I think that in my case it was the other way—that I learned to love myself because someone else finally loved me. Seeing myself whole in another man's eyes, deeper than any mirror, and neither of us looking away because there's so much lost time to make up for.

Perhaps we were atheists by default, but the matter of God did not come into the equation of our love.