Quotes About Relationships

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected.

If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs, The Gods are to each other not unknown. Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise.

An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, — He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Keep your friendships in repair.

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.

A difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections.

I know too well how slowly we edge along sideways to every thing good & brilliant in our lives & how casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

We will meet as though we met not and part as though we parted not.

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.

The love that you withhold is the pain you carry.

Society we must have; but let it be society, and not exchanging news or eating from the same dish. Is it society to sit in one of your chairs? I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

Love is as much its demand as perception. Indeed, neither can be perfect without the other.

The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, — a possession for all time.

Treat men as pawns and ninepins and you shall suffer as well as they. If you leave out their heart, you shall lose your own.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.