Quotes About Relationships

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.

She threw herself eagerly into the paths of unsuitable men.

We have nothing to fear but our mothers.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I'm joining the circus. Although I'm happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.

It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.

Annette liebt über alles diese Großmutter, die reich ist nicht an Gütern und gebildet nicht an Lektüren.

Change is the manifestation of our ability to grow and become. When it occurs in those nearest and dearest to us it is an opportunity for celebration. When it happens in ourselves, it allows us to share ourselves on a new level. When we try to protect others from the awareness of our changes, we are being dishonest. No one can care for who we are unless they know who we are.

Weet je... misschien... nee, niet misschien, ik weet het wel heel zeker: een mens redt het alleen maar als er een andere mens is die van hem houdt.

Imagine that your own children, who you brought into the world, just walk past you. It's enough to make anybody crazy.

What's more, divorces there could be granted on the grounds of simple infidelity, while in America that only counted if the extramarital affair had taken place in the marital home.

Gyvenimas yra ?vyki? grandin?, viskas susij? kaip geriausiose knygose.

Is that what they think, then? That loners have no friends?

After what others would call a fun day out together, we feel as if we have been at the Red Cross, donating blood.

Loners can play well with others-the right others

Yet introverts and loners are not one and the same thing.

You know very well that no one can enter the heart of another and become as one, not even for the shortest moment. Even your mother only made you flesh, and at your first breath you breathed in solitude

Es ist sehr nett, verheiratet zu sein. Man muss nur wissen, dass zwei Menschen niemals ein Herz und eine Seele haben können. Sie bleiben immer zwei Leute, zwei Herzen. Es kommt nur darauf an, angenehm nebeneinander zu leben und doch nie allein zu sein.