Quotes About Relationship

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon... what it means to you.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.

I put my arms around you," she would tell Michael Stankewicz from the witness stand on the day he was sentenced. "To comfort you.

There gradually developed between them a relationship that was not without its ebb and flow. One moment she would receive an invitation to visit Hohenschwangau in the middle of winter… the next she would be told hat she must leave Munich within 34 hours — to which she replied that she knew her rights. One moment the King would be lying passionately at her feet, the next he would forbid her to come near him...

My father, who has derived such happiness from his childhood, found in me the companion with who, he could return there.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

The plural of spouse is spice.

Have I ever told you how glad I am we're not enemies? Eragon asked. No, but it's very sweet of you.

In contrast to the objectivity of blind justice and the abstract logic of principled reasoning, care reasoning requires understanding particularity—the needs, interests, and well-being of another person—and understanding the relationship between oneself and that other person. This requires a moral stance "informed by care, love, empathy, compassion, and emotional sensitivity.

I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.

10th October 1877 I am in love! Her name is Drusilla MacAvoy. 15th October 1877 Too hasty by far! The MacAvoy woman was not for me. I am planning to kill myself, and if the remainder of these pages are blank anyone who comes across this diary will know I succeeded.

there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it

The exodus was not a movement from slavery to freedom, but from slavery to covenant. Redemption was for relationship with the redeemer, to serve his interests and his purposes in the world.

The word 'God' defines a personal relation, not an objective concept. Like the name of the beloved in every love. It does not imply separation and distance. Hearing the beloved name is an immediate awareness, a dimensionless proximity of presence. It is our life wholly transformed into relation.

We know God by cultivating a relationship, not by understanding a concept. The relation constitutes the very subjectivity of of our existence. We participate in existence consciously and rationally, with subjective self-knowledge and identity, because the erotic drive of our nature is transformed into a personal relation when there arises in the space of the Other the first signifier of desire: the maternal presence. The subject is born with love's first leap of joy.

In this short time you have already become as a brother to me.' 'That is what the Prince creates between men--brotherhood.

Where are you going?" "Over here, so I don't strike you," Taras replied with his back to Quinlin.

It was good to see her laugh. Even if it was at me.

And there in her bewilderment he recognized his grave mistake. He had surrendered himself to Claire, just as Krista had to him. When you give someone the power to save you, you give them the power to destroy you as well.

nine times out of ten, romance is a problem, not a solution.

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

As Paul says in Philippians 1:21, God doesn't just want to be "a part" of our lives, He wants to be our very life itself.

A single leaf working alone provides no shade.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.