Quotes About Relationships

Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell

He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.

When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have a friendship from youth that's still in your life today.

Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in real life this does not always happen.

I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.

Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.

All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless.

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means - the bottom line - then for me it's if the family is healthy and happy.

I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.

What I've learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.

Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.

No matter what anyone says, it's much worse to be unloved than it is to be lost in the woods." "Sometimes, I think you've been lost in the woods all your life, Charlie Brown.

I've been profoundly germophobic since I was a young child. I don't want to kiss anyone but my girlfriend for my whole life.

If you're unhappy at the amount of sexual opportunity in your life, don't blame the women. Instead, make sure they have equal access to power, wealth, and status. Then watch what happens.

Maturity is a stage of life when you don't see eye to eye but can walk arm in arm.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.