Quotes About Relationships

When people don't respect one another seldom is there honesty.

Kindness in your dealings with yourself and others will work wonders in your life. Much more so than rightness in your thinking.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

No soportamos que nuestros allegados no estén al corriente de nuestras penas

Una pareja, pensé, que depende y vive de sus obstáculos: una pareja que se deshará cuando ya no los haya, si es que no la deshacen antes esos mismos obstáculos tan fatigosos y prolongados, que sin embargo tendrán que alimentar y cuidar y procurar hacer eternos, si ya les ha alcanzado el momento de no poder pasarse sin ti y sin mí, o el uno sin el otro.

Y es que cuando se quiere a alguien los celos vienen incluidos. Quién no cela no ama y el que diga lo contrario miente. Miente y no ama.

Que voy a esperarte. Quiero estar ahí cuando sientas que puedes volver a tener una relación. Quiero ser yo el que te haga volver a disfrutar de las cosas buenas de la vida. Quiero compartir todo contigo. Y para ello voy a quedarme aquí, a tu lado, esperando el tiempo que haga falta.

El amor no está a la vuelta de la esquina, pero sí un poco más allá; al cruzar al otro lado que siempre evitamos por costumbre. A veces acertamos y otras no. Incluso cuando acertamos y ponemos todo de nuestra parte, una relación es como un globo de helio sostenido solamente con dos dedos: uno de cada persona. Basta que uno se separe del otro para que el amor se pierda irremediablemente.

One of the habits that Dr. Stephen Covey discusses in his book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is, "Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

The people who avoid communicating their emotions are the very people we need to avoid.

Presence is a noun, not a verb; it is a state of being, not doing. States of being are not highly valued in a culture that places a high priority on doing. Yet, true presence or "being with" another person carries with it a silent power.

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

Everything...affects everything

people grow apart, and sometimes there's nothing anyone can do about it

if you can talk to them about themselves, you'll have their full attention.

Relationship innovation is more important to women than product innovation is.

More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world. —William Barclay

One of these norms says that Christians must not talk negatively to other people about those who are not in the group. Instead, they are instructed to speak privately about their differences to these individuals themselves. Matthew 18:15-17 is quite clear on the point.33

When help in changing is not sought and the old ways and the old relationships are allowed to continue, the parties set themselves up for a reoccurrence of the offense. Mutual effort to discover and solve issues God's way must be encouraged by the counselor. The only way to cement a new relationship that will enable both parties to forgive and forget past offenses and to avoid and/or handle future failures as well is by means of such effort.

Love is self-giving; fear is self-protecting.3 Love moves toward others; fear shrinks away from them. But the counselor must remember (and persuade the counselee that) love is the stronger since it is able to "cast out" fear. In dealing with fear, nothing else possesses the same expulsive power.

Gottman descubrió que las parejas que habían seguido casadas durante esos nueve años discutían prácticamente lo mismo que las que habían acabado en divorcio.

Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!

Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.