Quotes About Relationship

You probably don't think I'm the ideal child. But the fact you people think that means there's a possibility that I don't think of you as ideal parents either. Adult don't realize that because they don't consider children to be equal human beings.

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This idea originated with psychologist Carl Rogers (see p 238), who taught that nonjudgmental listening and acceptance of another person's feelings create rapport. Applied

If the shortest distance to any man's heart is his stomach, then one of the better compliments a man can give a woman is to ask for seconds.

day and then Mom will meet me in Cleveland tomorrow night for the debate on Wednesday. Okay . . . Just wanted to touch base with you. Call me or Mom when you can, okay? Bye." Ryan disconnected the call and tossed

Wet streets don't cause rain, do they?

If you do not become their friend and then share Jesus with them . . . who will?

He had a way of becoming wooden and emotionless just when she needed him to be the opposite.

But it wasn't really about her looks; there was just this current running between us, a really strong connection. Her absence always felt abrupt and unfair when we parted at the end of the day, like someone had unplugged the radio in the middle of a good song. (Page 37)

The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You've never learned to communicate your feelings to a man. You don't even want to communicate in a relationship. You think that if you open up to love, you'll lose your independence or your self-expression or creativity or whatever you call all that passionate, wonderful stuff that makes you feel alive inside.

There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky is sensed, is seen, although in such settings the sky itself is invariably immense. There is a place between the cerebrum and the stars where sky stops and space commences, and should we find ourselves on a particular prairie or mountaintop at a particular hour, our relationship with sky thins and loosens while our connection to space becomes solid as bone.

The only question is how to make love stay.

Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.

even though the mind of humanity was ultimately one mind, still, each and every single individual had to establish his or her own special, personal, particular, unique, direct, one-on-one, hands-on relationship with reality, with the universe, with the Divine. It might be complicated, it might be a pain in the ass, it might be, most of all, lonely—but it was the bottom line.

Was it wife soup and husband soup on the Other Side? Or was it simply soup?

I married John Paul because I'm knocked out by his style. Because I love him and respect him and enjoy the transformations that take place as a result of our sharing the same dimensions.

Romantic love is ambulatory by nature, and it must be anchored in strata more stable than lust if it's to last. Marital disintegration is accelerated when only one, or neither, party is grounded and growing, or growing at different rates or in different directions.

God wants to be the center of your life, not to simply be imbedded in a slice of it.

With relationship comes access, and with intimacy comes influence.

He's looking for people who are hot after His heart. He wants a Church of Davids who are after His own heart3 (not just His hand). You can seek for His blessing and play with His toys, or you can say, "No, Daddy, I don't just want the blessings; I want You. I want You to come close. I want You to touch my eyes, touch my heart, touch my ears, and change me, Lord. I'm tired of me the way I am, because if I can change, then the cities can change too.

people don't want doctrine, they don't want tracts, and they don't want our feeble arguments; they just want Him! (When will we learn that if people can be argued into the faith, then they can just as easily be argued out of it as well?)

A busca de intimidade traz bênçãos, mas a busca de bênçãos nem sempre traz intimidade.

To be a blessing to anybody on this earth, you must first be blessed. You can only give what you have received. God wants to deepen, bless and enrich your relationship with Him so that you can give away your relationship with Him to this impersonal, lonely, sorrow-filled, dying world.

He wants to put his story next to hers.