Quotes About Relationships

A multitude of particular facts cannot be seen separately, without at last discovering the common tie which connects them.

No vice of the human heart is so acceptable to it as egotism: a despot easily forgives his subjects for not loving him, provided they do not love each other.

If men are to remain civilized, the art of associating together must grow

Each of them, withdrawn and apart, is like a stranger to the destiny of all the others; his children and his particular friends form the whole human species for him; as for dwelling with his fellow citizens, he is beside them, but he does not see them; he touches them and does not feel them; he exists only in himself and for himself alone, and if a family still remains for him, one can at least say that he no longer has a native country.

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

Children don't just need to be loved; they need to know that nothing they do will change the fact that they're loved.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

This quote begins here. A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. This quote ends here.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

You knew and you've been laughing at me.' 'No.' 'Standing by and shaking with laughter.' 'Standing by and loving you.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

Weren't you ever booed at by your mother?!

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

We have to hope, Daniel was saying, that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen us truly. In the end, not much else matters.

Know that the only remedy for love is to love more.

I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?

Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

If you are loved, you never lose the person who loved you. You carry them with you all your life.

He knew exactly how to hit a woman, so that the marks hardly showed. He knew how to kiss her, too, so that her heart began to race and she'd start to think forgiveness with every breath. It's amazing the places that love will carry you. It's astounding to discover just how far you're willing to go.

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

I was beginning to understand. My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things; that was why everything had to be perfect.