Quotes About Relationships

Womanliness means only motherhood; All love begins and ends there.

And what proportion love should hold with power In his right constitution: love preceding Power—with much power always much more love;

all's love, yet all's law.

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had ne'er been broken-hearted

Sometimes the better part of love is silence.

He looks at me fondly. I know that the look doesn't have love in it. Or even lust. I still wonder about love or sex or lust. I saw lust in his eyes when he looked at that girl on the sidewalk … I love him, anyway. I love him because he's kind to me and he doesn't want my body, doesn't want to feel me or touch me, like all the others … and maybe after a while he might look at me with more than fondness, will kiss me sweetly, tenderly.

I have always pondered a tragic law of adolescence. (On second thought, the law probably applies to all ages to some extent). That law: People fall in love at the same time—often at the same stunning moment—but they fall out of love at different times. One is left sadly juggling the pieces of a fractured heart while the other has danced away.

She didn't want to look ahead to the days and the months and the years with him. Here, now, in this room, it was all right, but later? Again, time couldn't stop. And she saw at last that time only stopped when you were dead...Time was always moving and nothing could stay the same, everything was always changing, for better or for worse. And you had to change with time, with the seasons and the years, or you would be dead too, although your heart would continue to beat.

Being a friend is hard." "If it was easy, anyone could do it." "I love smart women." "Smart women love you." "I'd better go." "Call me later.

Karbo and Bender continued talking, but Pike sensed something off in how they related to each other. Karbo flashed a perfunctory smile and Bender seemed uncomfortable. Their handshake had been businesslike, and they stood a step too far apart. They seemed more like strangers who were meeting for the first time than friends who would commit a spur-of-the-moment abduction.

I glanced at the address. "He lives in Palm Springs?" "Somewhere in L.A., I think. His family has the house in Palm Springs, or it might belong to a friend, but I don't really know. Krista hasn't told me much about him." Old story. The less Krista told her, the less she could criticize. I put the address aside. "Okay.

people over the years

Pike was silent for a moment, then simply hung up. To expect more was to be disappointed. Everett's

Buddy, feel what's true to you. If you want to talk about this stuff, or anything, twenty-four-seven, I'm yours. If not, then not, but I'm here.

Love wants the best for others, and the best is that they no longer offend. If we are complicit in the offense, as in the case of giving money to a compulsive gambler knowing that he may squander it, then we are not showing love. Forgiveness is free; trust must be earned. Sometimes trust is never justified.

the "sum of virtue," Hobbes writes, "is to be sociable with them that will be sociable, and formidable to them that will not."1

Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.

A strong man tied to a weak man… When there is trouble, the strong man's strength counts for nothing.

A man can never have too many friends.

Cuando amas a alguien con la razón, el amor no puede ser constante. Cuando amas a alguien con el corazón, el amor siempre está ahí, como lo está la comprensión.

Lamentablemente, lo que se lleva en las relaciones es tener el control. Y cuando hay control, no hay amor. Durante siglos, hombres y mujeres en realidad no se han amado. Se han manipulado los unos a los otros. Cada sexo ha hecho sentir al otro que el amor debía ganárselo.

Cuando ya no precisamos a una persona es sólo entonces cuando podemos amarla de verdad.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

Good fences make good neighbors.