Quotes About Relationships

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.

We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.

You can't have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

All of us have been through relationships; there have been periods of time when we've been single. It's something that everyone experiences. It's a matter of making that observation and then start to ask questions about it: Why is it like that? And why do we feel that? And why are we organized this way? Isn't there any other way?

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

My view has always been that marriage means love, and an excellent way of describing your love for another person is to make that permanent commitment.

In politics, there are no permanent enemies or friends.

We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.

If a guy wants to take me out, he must seek my dad's permission first. That's just the way it works.

I perpetuate rumors that I've dated people that I've never actually dated.

I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.

I had an arranged marriage, and learnt you have to persevere and remember we are all human and all have faults. Obviously my husband Abdal has more faults than I do!

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.

It just clicks when you meet the right person.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

People come and go in your life. It is up to you choose how you want to associate with that person. It is up to you to learn and imbibe things from such a person.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level—indeed in the molecule itself—it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up.

The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.

If everyone is my brother, I have no brothers.

L'homme est né sociable, c'est-à-dire qu'il cherche dans toutes ses relations l'égalité et la justice ; mais il aime l'indépendance et l'éloge : la difficulté de satisfaire en même temps à ces besoins divers est la première cause du despotisme de la volonté et de l'appropriation qui en est la suite.

To Pedro, God was the love which existed between two human beings, or a group of human beings. Thus love was all important.

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