Quotes About Relationships

A Long Way from Chicago is the funniest book I have read in a while. You will enjoy the antics of Grandma and the love and dismay her grandchildren feel for her

we two clinging to twigs of each other in the tide amazed our identities survive

Most Americans watch Friends rather than having friends.

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

Love is my decision to make your problem my problem.

Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.

Energy Skills for Life and Relationships by John Friedlander and Gloria Hemsher

In the connected world, customers are no longer just a number or account; they are unique human beings with a distinct set of needs.

I will not let thee go. I hold thee by too many bands: Thou sayest farewell, and lo! I have thee by the hands, And will not let thee go.

People, my dear, are little children at heart. We all want to be loved and wanted and cherished. We want to know we matter to others, and they're glad we're here. That's the best gift you can give someone. That's all really we can ever give. To tell someone else you love them for everything they are and everything they're not. Don't underestimate that.

She was strikingly ignorant, but he had known that from the start. What he had not known was how quickly her ignorance would cease to seem charming and would begin to seem contemptible.

Three things I never lends—my 'oss, my wife, and my name.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Nordstrom believes that great service begins with showing courtesy to everyone—customers, employees, and vendors.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

I know it's hard. It's one of the hardest things there is, but you know we can't make people love us. It happens, or it doesn't.

Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.

She's my daughter. She's my sister.

The human brain is wired to see relationships, not detached elements. The artist Heinz Kusel, who taught color theory for twenty years, explained: "Color by itself doesn't exist. All that we see as color is created by relationships-what the color is next to, what surrounds it. A name for a color is absurd, because its appearance is constantly changing as a result of its environment. There are no fixed colors. In a different context it's changed completely."2

I have been forced to believe that neither the scholarly grace of my friend Elliott nor the buxom beauty of my friend Rowden have touched that heart of ice." Elliot and Rowden, boiling with indignation, cried out, "And you!" "I," said Clifford blandly, "do fear to tread where you rush in.

The more they give up false security, the greater the opportunity they have for real security in genuine relationships built on honest choices and priorities. Only through breaking loose from bondage and fantasies of connection can we really be free to fulfill our human potentiality.