Quotes About Relationships

In one large sample of women, for instance, the annual probability of divorce among those whose weddings cost more than $20,000 was more than three times that of those whose weddings cost between $5,000 and $10,000.

How would your values and priorities change if you were told you had only seven days to live?

Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

Each man must seek for himself the people who hold the essential beauty, and each man must eventually say to himself as I do, 'these are my people and all that I have I owe to them.

You say to me-wards your affection's strong;Pray love me little, so you love me long.

One of the big mistakes I think we make in relationships is that we don't give our best energy to the people that matter most.

All the happiness, health, and abundance you experience in life comes directly from your ability to love and be loved. This ability is innate, not acquired.

Love offers us the most perfect soil for growth." Leo Buscaglia

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." David Viscott

To get to love you have to start with love.

While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.

You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.

No man can be a friend of Jesus Christ who is not a friend of his neighbor.

Please do not think for a second, as some people do, that Love is primarily an affair of the emotions. It is not: it never ought to be. It is an affair of the will: it is an act of choice.

Friendliness took the place of charity, contentment the place of hope, and knowledge the place of faith.

there should be established the peace of man with God, and after that the unity of man with man will follow.

No one on their death bed wishes they would've been meaner.

Psychologist Susan Fiske observes, 'Attention is directed up the hierarchy. Secretaries know more about their bosses than vice versa; graduate students know more about their advisors than vice versa.' Fiske explains this happens because, like our fellow primates, 'people pay attention to those who control their outcomes. In an effort to predict and possibly influence what is going to happen to them, people gather information about those with power.

He was afflicted with what I call "Asshole Blindness," where people don't realize or underestimate how dire an asshole problem is, how much they and perhaps others are suffering, and how important it is to get out as soon as possible.

a twenty-year study that tracked six thousand British civil servants found that when their bosses criticized them unfairly, didn't listen to their problems, and rarely praised them, employees suffered more angina, heart attacks, and deaths from heart disease. You get the idea. It doesn't matter whether the assholes around you are getting ahead or (more likely) screwing up their lives, careers, and companies. They pose a danger to you and others.

A Lutheran pastor in Illinois writes: A great deal of the work in our church is done by non-paid individuals who, at times, hurt the feelings of fellow volunteers. Do you have any thoughts on what to do with mean people who volunteer their time?

The first diagnostic question follows from the late writer Maya Angelou's assertion that "at the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.