Quotes About Relationship

In the opening pages of Genesis, we see that our Trinitarian God made everything "good." The only thing that is not called "good" is that our first father, Adam, was alone. He had creation below him, and God above him, but no one alongside of him to walk as an equal.

We can kill our sin, or sin will kill our marriages. Those are the only options.

Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is frequency and freedom.

In making a path like the Buddha, we discover our own capacities for relationship. Doing this is like feeling our way in the dark. We need a healthy appreciation for what kind of obstacles we are facing within ourselves, and we need a method for working our way around those obstacles. It is in this sense that the path is the goal - opening leads to further opening. The Buddha's meditative teachings are about finding and incorporating a method around our obstacles.

Separate and together cease to be mutually exclusive and instead become, in psychoanalyst Christopher Bolla's phrase, reciprocally enhancing and mutually informative.

The Buddha was interested in teaching us not only how to find our own freedom, but in how to stay in affectionate relationship to other people.

Time is only the relationship between the different things changing

She understood now. You got married in spite of your wedding not because of it.

After an Indian meal they went back to Jamie's flat and Tony did at least two things to him on the sofa that no one had ever done to him before then came back and them again the following evening, and suddenly life became very good indeed.

Father was standing in the corridor. He held up his right hand and spread his fingers out in a fan. I held up my left hand and spread my fingers out in a fan and we made our fingers and thumbs touch each other. We do this because sometimes Father wants to give me a hug, but I do not like hugging people, so we do this instead, and it means that he loves me.

And then, after a while, she said, 'Christopher, let me hold your hand. Just for once. Just for me. Will you? I won't hold it hard.

We're [Christopher & Ed] not that different, me and you. [said Ed]

Because time is only the relationship between the way different things change, like the earth going round the sun and atoms vibrating and clocks ticking and day and night and waking up and going to sleep

We're [Ed and Christopher] not that different, me and you. [said Ed]

We're [Christopher and Ed] not that different, me and you. [said Ed]

Marriages are made in heaven which is why they cause so much trouble on earth.

And I love you.' she said her heart buoyant. She really did love him, although each time she said it and he could not reply, she loved him perhaps a little less.

Her eyes showed that though she may have decided to regret him, as long as he was in her presence she could not.

They were already in love and both of them knew it, but for both it was too fast.

We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.

Yes, I'm a terrific teacher : Grow, Sarah, but not too much. Understand yourself, but not better than I understand you. Be brave, but not so brave you don't need me any more. Your silence frightens me. When I'm in that silence, I hear nothing, I feel like nothing. I can never pull you into my world of sound any more than you can open some magic door and bring me into your silence. I can say that now.

Truly, the most we can ask of others is for their guidance and comfort on the way—without imposition, design, or thought of reward. This is the hospitality of relationship: for family to help us manifest who we are in the world, for friends to bring us to thresholds of realness, for loved ones to encourage us to cross barriers of our own making into moments of full aliveness.

Once I quit fighting with him and began rewarding his efforts to respond to my cues, he became extremely willing to do what I was asking. The fight and confusion just seemed to melt away

When he sees that you are giving him the respect he deserves, and the understanding he needs, he will start to trust you in return." She took a sip from her milk glass. "When you have his trust, you'll have the horse. Once he trusts you, putting the saddle on him won't be a problem.