Quotes About Relationships

So why go to church? Why worship with a group? Because, in some way we may not fully understand, the Spirit indwells the group in a way the Spirit does not indwell the individual. We are all built together to become one, whole building: a single dwelling for his Spirit. Like it or not, we need each other. As Rodney Reeves noted, "I cannot worship God by myself.

Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.

The adult incest survivor is likely to become involved in sexual relationships with older or more powerful people…There is little room for intimacy and much opportunity for abuse and sacrifice…The survivor may continue to be 'child', rather than an equal.

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

Love doesn't work that way. You don't meet one day and kiss and see sparkles the next. Real love takes time. They need to get to know each other, and when they do, then they might fall in love. They know next to nothing about each other now.

when all your smiles should be for me,

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.

Never favour those who flatter you most, but hold rather to those who risk your displeasure for your own good. Never neglect business for pleasure, organise your life so that there is time in it for relaxation and entertainment. Give the business of government your full attention. Inform yourself as much as you can before taking any decision. Make every effort to get to know men of distinction, so that you may call on them when you need them. Be courteous to all, speak hurtfully to no man.

That power of holding on to an image that Ruskin describes so admirably is not the power of the eidetic; it is that faculty of keeping a large number of relationships present in one's mind that distinguishes all mental achievement, be it that of the chess player, the composer, or the great artist.

I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.— Grace Trevelyan

Laters, baby.

I've been the oldest child since before you were born

Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

He should know no one intimately, least of all a woman.

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.

I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?

Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.

They had never struggled, and only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and—by some sad, strange irony—it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.