Quotes About Relationships

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.

life without love, is no life at all

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

My family's the most important thing in my life.

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.

People are in your life for a reason, others are there for a season and it's important to realize when those seasons are over.

When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.

What does it mean to enter the mind of the beloved? The I lost in the you without hesitation: the ultimate goal of every kindred soul to transcend the aching, the screaming, loneliness of the Divide, so that the atoms of one dissolve into the atoms of the other (two as one . . .), making such intimate love that orgasm is the sharing of electrons in flight. And what does it mean to enter the mind of the beloved when you believe the beloved no longer loves you?

Even as Control said it, he had known that he was also telling her he didn't mind leaving her there, alone, on the other side.

Were companies units or loose, ever-shifting alliances of individuals? Still didn't know.

The things we say to each other, thinking they are so important to say, and yet later regret, that become a part of you no matter how hard you push them away, even as you can't stop thinking about them.

she said not a word because to say anything—anything at all—would be to humiliate him, and she cared more about him than that. And it cost her nothing.

confess I went because I had hopes that there remained some spark of the man I'd once known. But I never really found it.

I loved him, but I didn't need him, and I thought that was the way it was supposed to be.

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.