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Quotes About Relationships

The value of one's life is determined by how much love one gives, not by how much love one has received.
~ Epictetus
If you're writing to a friend, grammar will tell you what letters you ought to choose, but as to whether or not you ought to write to your friend, grammar won't tell you that.
~ Epictetus
which would you rather have—money to share with others, or loyal and honest friends?
~ Epictetus
But only if I identify with my will can I be someone's friend – or son, or father – in the true sense, because only then will my self-interest be served by remaining loyal, honest, patient, tolerant and supportive, and by maintaining my social relations.
~ Epictetus
the gods I am indebted for having good grandfathers, good parents, a good sister, good teachers, good associates, good kinsmen and friends, nearly everything good.
~ Epictetus
The people before whom you bow and tremble – when I meet them, I treat them as if they were slaves.
~ Epictetus
Refuse to participate in gossip—tearing down, inflating, and judging other people.
~ Epictetus
A person who rarely leaves home, who doesn't converse with, praise, and encourage others, will not attract friends.
~ Epictetus
19] 'My brother shouldn't have treated me in this way.' Indeed he shouldn't, but it's for him to see to that. For my part, however he treats me, I should conduct myself towards him as I ought. For that is my business, and the rest is not my concern. In this no one can hinder me, while everything else is subject to hindrance.
~ Epictetus
It is often hazardous to marry an heiress, as she is not unfrequently the last of a diseased family.
~ Erasmus Darwin
Do not trust the Afghans. Do not trust your friends. Do not trust anyone except your enemies.
~ Eric Blehm
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
~ Eric Hoffer
We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.
~ Eric Hoffer
How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
~ Eric Hoffer
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
~ Eric Hoffer
jealously lives with insecurity!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
I wish I had met you first. Before we met them.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
common sense is the enemy of romance
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
anger and jeaously are first cousins!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
with attachment comes pain!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
The path to love wasn't a smooth road. Love would show up while you were busy with another love, leaving you to decide.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
beauty is the currency of betrayal!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Sex and love are not identical twins. Not fraternal. Not born at the same moment but still of the same womb.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey