Quotes About Relationship

If a man own land, the land owns him.

It is this intangible thing, love in many forms, which enters into every therapeutic relationship. . . . And it is an element which binds and heals, which comforts and restores, which works what we have to call - for now - miracles.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

"So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter."

At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.

The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him.

A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

When you stop talking, you've lost your customer.

While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other.... There are always plenty of surprises-and lots of give and take-once you're married.

The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.

Don't try to reach God with your understanding; that is impossible. Reach him in love; that is possible.

The right way to pray, then, is any way that allows us to communicate with God.

Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates.

It is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him, just as we would have our children come freely and of their own accord and speak to us about the things they would like to have.

If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society-more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.