Quotes About Relationships

El amor no abraza, pensaba Rímini: hiere. No inunda, se clava.

los celos, cansados de ser feroces, vuelven a la matriz de la que alguna vez los desterró el rencor: la matriz del desamparo.

He looked around, waiting for a reply, then shrugged and looked down at Vex. "You need better friends." "He's not my friend.

Do your best not to die, sweetie," he said quietly. "She's the only one who knows how to work the dishwasher.

The better I can make the world, the better it is for the people in my life

can't spend all that time together and then all of a sudden not care if you never see that person again.

What is a life?" Scapegrace continued. "Is life merely living? Is it having a heartbeat? Or is life the effect you have on others? Is it the effect you have on the world around you? If so, what have I done with mine? How have I wasted it?

but you're angry. Not with me, because no one could be angry with me, but with others.

I don't want to think about living in a world where you're not in it, all right?

She liked that feeling, as much as she hated to admit it. She liked being around someone who was genuinely happy to be around her.

I wish I would have known you earlier so I could love you longer. - Derek Miles

It seems to me that no matter whether you marry, settle down or live with a bird or not, certain ones simply have your number on them, like bombs in the war; and even if you don't happen to like them all that much there's nothing you can do about it — unless you're prepared to spend a lifetime arguing fate out of existence, which you could probably do if you tried but I'm not the type. —Crust on Its Uppers, p. 87

This was the end of some of those friendships. They were left behind, artifacts of youth, boxed up with my comic books, my sketchbooks ans journals, and the rest of my teenage mementos. Only a select few of my high school comrades, like Mike, would remain lifelong pals.

We forget that nothing happens in life independently of other things.

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.

It's unavoidable: so long as we value money more highly than living beings and more highly than relationships, we will continue to see living beings as resources, and convert them to cash; objectifying, killing, extirpating. This is true whether we're talking about fish, fur-bearing mammals, Indians, day-laborers, and so on. If monetary value is attached to something it will be exploited until it's gone.

Love does not imply pacifism.

The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

The word 'love' is, in fact, the way we commonly describe the emotional feelings that accompany the imprinting process.

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.