Quotes About Relationships

The cost of love is the risk of losing it." But it's always worth it. After all, in the end, what else is there?

Love is never convenient-and rarely painless

It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

We humans...are seriously flawed. The things that are the most necessary, the most critical to us, are the things we take most for granted. Air. Water. Love. If you have someone to love, you are lucky. If they love you back, you're blessed. And if you waste the time you have to love them, you're a fool.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

Don't trust anyone, not even your best friends. Love them, but never trust them completely. At critical times, they can be influenced to do things you don't want.

We've learned a little about a few of them, in isolation. But nothing is less isolated or more social than a tree.

Kindness may look for something in return, but that doesn't make it any less kind.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.

My dad once told me something when I was young and having boyfriend problems. He said all guys are guided by three things: their head, their heart and their dick. And those three things are always fighting with each other inside guys to be the one that makes the decisions. So, my question to you, young man, is which one guides you when you want to be with me?

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

There are] code words used today to measure the 'authenticity' of relationships or other persons. We speak of whether we can personally 'relate' to events or other persons, and whether in the relationship itself people are 'open' to one another. The first is a cover word for measuring the other in terms of a mirror of self-concern, and the second is a cover for measuring social interaction in terms of the market exchange of confession.

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Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other.

Someone once told me that explaining is an admission of failure. I'm sure you remember, I was on the phone with you, sweetheart.

You are playing cards with three Jeffs. One is your father, one is your brother, and the other is your current boyfriend. All of them have seen you naked and heard you talking in your sleep. Your boyfriend Jeff gets up to answer the phone. To them he is a mirror, but to you he is a room.