Quotes About Relationship

We should add: it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk; it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt.

They hug tightly, expressing the pure affection available only to two people who have no further designs upon each other. Their lack of time is a privilege.

Does beuty give birth to love? Or does love give birth to beauty? Did I love Chloe because she was beautiful? Or was she beautiful because I loved her?

this was only a confirmation of the uniqueness that I had managed to find in my girlfriend. I had animated her face with her soul.

a lack of love: between a man and a woman is the announcement that what they might produce would only be a badly organized, unhappy being, wanting in harmony in itself.

the only difference between the end of love and the end of life being that at least in the latter, we are granted the comforting thought that we will not feel anything after death. No such comfort for the lover, who knows that the end of the relationship will not necessarily be the end of love, and most certainly not the end of life.

There is usually a Marxist moment in every relationship, the moment when it becomes clear that love is reciprocated.

the only difference between the end of love and the end of life being that at least in the latter, we are granted the comforting thought that we will not feel anything after death. No such comfort for the lover, who knows that the end of the relationship will not necessarily be the end of love, and almost certainly not the end of life.

It's the permanent female problem, whether or not to trust a man when he's seducing. You may like the man without trusting him, but one thing you want to avoid is getting hurt again.

Never have they publicly fielded the one question that truly preoccupies them: "what is it like to have been married awhile?

His impression of her freedom and autonomy scares as much as it excites him.

bir iliÅŸkinin baÅŸar?s?n? s?rf çiftin beraber ne kadar mutlu olduÄŸuna bakarak deÄŸil, her bir partnerin bir iliÅŸkide olmama fikrini ne kadar dert ettiÄŸini de göz önünde bulundurarak deÄŸerlendirmek gerekir.

Lovers may kill their own love story for no other reason than that they are unable to tolerate the uncertainty, the sheer risk, that their experiment in happiness has delivered

love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.

According to this view, love is simply a direction, not a place, and burns itself out with the attainment of its goal, the possession (in bed or otherwise) of the loved one.

Vai entender que o amor só dura quando não somos fiéis às suas sedutoras ambições iniciais e que, para ter um relacionamento duradouro, precisará abrir mão dos sentimentos que desde o início o levaram a amar. Precisará aprender que o amor é mais habilidade do que entusiasmo.

It may come very fast, this certainty that another human being is a soulmate. We needn't have spoken with them; we may not even know their name. Objective knowledge doesn't come into it. What matters instead is intuition: a spontaneous feeling that seems all the more

The libertine position denies any inherent or logical link between loving someone and needing to be unfailingly sexually loyal to them.

It is significantly more important to Rabih now that he remains attractive to Kirsten than that he is a truthful correspondent of the reality of his inner life.

Rabih's love is a logical response to the discovery of complementary strengths and a range of attributes to which he aspires. He loves from a feeling of incompleteness - and from a desire to be made whole. He isn't alone in this. Albeit in different areas, Kirsten is likewise seeking to make up for deficiencies.

If in order to love, we must believe that the beloved surpasses us in some way, does not a cruel paradox emerge when we witness this love returned? 'If s/he really is so wonderful, how could s/he could love someone like me?' 2.

Jesus sleeping in his mother's arms subliminally reinforce his counsel that we should learn to regard all our fellow human beings as if they were children.

In the wake of the affair, Rabih adopts a different view of the purpose of marriage. As a younger man he thought of it as a consecration of a special set of feelings: tenderness, desire, enthusiasm, longing. However, he now understands that it is also, and just as importantly, an institution, one which is meant to stand fast from year to year without reference to every passing change in the emotions of its participants.

He asks her to marry him because it feels like an extremely dangerous thing to do: if the marriage were to fail, it would ruin both their lives.