Quotes About Relationships

Dragostea pare delimitat? de dou? disolu?ii - via?a sub prea multe priviri ?i via?a sub prea pu?ine.

Love is a trap and only reveals itself to us by making us suffer.

disliking people rarely being a sufficient reason for not wanting them to like us).

Pronouncing a lover "perfect" can only be a sign that we have failed to understand them. We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us.

Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn't be its precondition.

How are we affected by an absence of love? Why should being ignored drive us to a rage and impotent despair beside which torture itself would be a relief?- The Importance of Love

It may be a sign that two people have stopped loving one another (or at least stopped wishing to make the effort that constitutes ninety per cent of love) when they are no longer able to spin differences into jokes. Humour lined the walls of irritation between our ideals and the reality: behind every joke, there was a warning of difference, of disappointment even, but it was a difference that had been defused - and could therefore be passed over without the need for a pogrom.

What use was it to live if it was without love and without being heard? What was freedom if it meant the freedom to be abandoned?

when it comes to domestic existence, we tend to make a fateful presumption of ease, which in turn inspires in us a tense aversion to protracted negotiation.

The terms avoidant and anxious are hardly typical in a love story, but if Romantic is taken to mean "helpful to the progress of love," then they turn out to be among the most romantic words Kirsten and Rabih will ever stumble upon, for they enable them to grasp patterns that have been destructively at work between them every day of their married lives.

One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us seriously happy. 2.     Chloe

He will surmise that love can endure only when one is unfaithful to its beguiling opening ambitions, and that, for his relationships to work, he will need to give up on the feelings that got him into them in the first place. He will need to learn that love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.

Of course, there would be few great human achievements if we accepted all frustrations. The motor of our ingenuity is the question 'Does it have to be like this?', from which arise political reforms, scientific developments, improved relationships, better books.

He's not secretive, controlling, or withdrawn for malicious reasons; he just gives up on other people—and on his ability to persuade them of anything—with unhelpful ease.

Marriage is supposed to be a partnership. Good-looking people marry good-looking people and the others take what's left.

Geoffrey's bad enough but I'm glad I wasn't married to Jesus.

Love does not require you to make believe you are something you are not.

What was, was. What is, is. Be true to what is, rather than clinging to an old form. Then you will create new meaningful relationships that match who you are and what you want.

Why live in a soap opera when you can star in a great love story?

If you can't be with the one you love, be the one you love.

every act is either an expression of love or a call for love.

El amor no mata para salvar.

There are seven reasons people go to work: (1) Money; (2) Passionate self-expression; (3) Rewarding relationships; (4) Service to improve others' lives; (5) Egoic achievement, competitive victory, or status; (6) Fear, guilt, obligation, rote habit, or debt to tradition; and (7) Avoidance of boredom or escape from a more unpleasant situation. We might boil this list down to two basic motivations: fear-based lack and joy-based expression.

Activities are valuable only if they bring us closer to peace. Relationships are healthy only as much as they reflect real love.