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Quotes About Relationships

That which issues from the heart alone, Will bend the hearts of others to your own.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I love you, is that any of your business?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If we put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and hatred we so often feel about them would disappear, and if we put others in our place, pride and conceit would greatly diminish.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Even people who are entirely strange and indifferent to one another will exchange confidences if they live together for a while, and a certain intimacy is bound to develop.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I sometimes cannot understand how she can love another, how she dares love another, when I love nothing in this world so completely, so devotedly, as I love her, when I know only her, and have no other possession.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are men who love their like and seek it; others love their opposite and follow after it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm fairly fond of boys, but my preference is for girls; When I have enough of a girl, she serves me still as a boy.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Here the old man said with a smile: 'Love does not rule, but it trains, and that is more.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I know of enough cases in which a close and, as it seemed, indissoluble relationship was annulled by the casual arrival of a third party, and one of the pair, previously joined so beautifully, driven out into empty space.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It matters not how long we live but how.
~ Francis Bailey
Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!
~ August Strindberg
The most important things in life happen over conversations while eating.
~ Geoffrey Zakarian
My family life mirrors why I am the person I am.
~ Jeppe Hein
Life is like the Internet: sometimes is almost impossible to connect.
~ Paulo Coelho
If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.
~ Ovid
Nothing in human life is inherently private.
~ Terry Eagleton