Quotes About Relationships

A childhood is made up of small moments of connection between a child and their parent. If you miss them, you don't ever get them back.

What we are sacrificing is depth in all sorts of dimensions … Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection. If you have to keep up with everything and send emails all the time, there's no time to reach depth. Depth connected to your work in relationships also takes time. It takes energy. It takes long timespans. And it takes commitment. It takes attention, right? All of these things that require depth are suffering. It's pulling us more and more up onto the surface.

Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Ich bin nicht nur bei jedem Mädchen, das ich liebte, eifersüchtig gewesen, sondern auch bei jeder andern, wenn sie nur hübsch war.

Die Gefahr[...] ist die poetische Ballfrisur der Liebe, und die hat sie auch höchst nöthig, denn in der Schlafhaub'n der Alltäglichkeit nimmt sich diese Himmelstochter miserabel aus.

Our friends show us what we can do our enemies teach us what we must do.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed

The only means to gain one's ends with people are force and cunning. Love also, they say; but that is to wait for sunshine, and life needs every moment.

U bezit zoveel verstand, zoveel kennis, zoveel talenten waar u plezier aan kunt beleven! Verman u toch! Geef het toch op, die treurige verknochtheid aan iemand die u er alleen maar om kan beklagen.

Lieben ist menschlich, nur müsst Ihr menschlich lieben!

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

A true German can't stand the French,Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence—this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else