Quotes About Relationship

By the time he's forty, a man's either in the habit of being married or he's not.

Zoe wasn't his partner, she was his trophy, and the thing about trophies is that they got old fast and, soon enough, you needed another conquest and another trophy on the shelf.

You can't even please yourself; how can you please a lover, Zoe?

Fitzroy, what is this shit?" "Henry, please, not Fitzroy.

Paul thought of how they'd kept delaying buying plane tickets to visit his parents in Taiwan - in December, which was next month, he knew - as if in tacit understanding that their relationship wouldn't last that long. Paul felt himself trying to interpret the situation, as if there was a problem to be solved, but there didn't seem to be anything, or maybe there was, but he was three or four skill sets away from comprehension, like an amoeba trying to create a personal webpage using CSS.

I made her admit she liked me. She likes me. But we're too alike. When you're with someone and neither of you can stop saying good things. Then you both get very aware that life will end soon. I think that's why we don't talk that much.

You always think the best of me,' I said, squeezing water from my hair. 'Even when you shouldn't.' 'That's what love is,' he said, and he got up and walked inside.

In the Dalai Lama's words, "One of the deepest human desires is to be known and understood.

we've sacrificed our potential in a bargain to preserve connection.

The poet Rumi saw clearly the relationship between our wounds and our awakening. He counseled, "Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

Much of our spiritual healing and awakening happens with others. We are wounded in relationship, and we need to heal in relationship.

when i look back over my own years of spiritual practice, i see that my heart and mind have been most profoundly awakened in the context of deep human relationship — giving birth and raising a child, having my heart broken, helping and being helped, facing my fears of intimacy, struggling with a judgmental mind, trying to love more fully.

it was true that i wanted to be in a romantic relationship with someone 'out there.' it was even more deeply true that the communion i longed for was available in that very moment. if i remained awake to this communion, desires might energize and guide my attention, but they wouldn't blind me to the fullness and beauty that are already here.

This isn't about you, Skeeter. It's about me, and I need you here. If we lose Crutchfield, we'll get him another day. If I lose you...

Love is not the greatest glue between two people. Sex is.

Friendship is not necessary for closeness

my mother took a younger man as a lover. They spent all day in her boudoir, festering in each other's company.

I was a bit vague on the details when relaying the story to him." "I might just come to like you, Emily. But you should never withhold details—no matter how small—from him. A marriage requires absolute honesty." "I agree, of course. It's just that—" "There can be no just thats," she said. "Full disclosure on every subject or you'll mire yourselves in a web of deceit. What seems insignificant

I decided to let him have his delusion of always being right. Marriage requires many such moments.

Every object that brings us pleasure can also bring us suffering and anxiety. The more we value an object, the more we worry that it will be broken or taken from us. That is the nature of our mind and of our relationship with objects.

You and I have never shared a bank account or a child or a bed. But you are my wife.

Marriage is between two people. There is no studio audience.

A marriage is more than your heart, it's your life. And we are not sharing ours.

Everything I do is a love letter addressed to you.