Quotes About Relationship

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are forward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough, or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. -- A love letter from Freud to his fiancée.

This is why a new task faces us which did not exist before, the task of investigating the relationship of the manifest dream-content to the latent dream-thoughts, and of tracing the processes by which the latter turned into the former.

Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

El hecho de que uno entable correspondencia con el ausente, con quien no puede hablar, no es menos natural que el de tratar de hacerse entender por escrito cuando uno ha perdido la voz.

Wenn man einem Menschen alles verziehen hat, ist man mit ihm fertig.

often has no suspicion of the causal connection between the precipitating event and the pathological phenomenon.

It is therefore reasonable to expect of an analyst, as a part of his qualifications, a considerable degree of mental normality and correctness. In addition, he must possess some kind of superiority, so that in certain analytic situations he can act as a model for his patient and in others as a teacher. And finally we must not forget that the analytic relationship is based on a love of truth — that is, on a recognition of reality — and that it precludes any kind of sham or deceit.

pleasure or pain may be thought of in psycho-physical relationship to conditions of stability and instability

I once heard a stranger in agitated conversation with her pug: And I suppose it's all my fault again, isn't it? At which, I swear, the dog rolled its eyes.

If we could talk to animals, goes the song. Meaning, if they could talk to us. But of course that would ruin everything.

This would explain much of human suffering, according to my ex, who was being less playful than you might think. He really did believe that's how it was: each of us languaging on, our meaning clear to ourselves but to nobody else. Even people in love? I asked, smilingly, teasingly, hopefully. This was at the very beginning of our relationship. He only smiled back. But years later, at the bitter end, came the bitter answer: People in love most of all. —

Now, even as you completed your conquest of Wife One, our friendship grew. It would outlast all my other friendships. It would bring me intense happiness. And I felt lucky; I had suffered, but unlike others I never got my heart broken. (Didn't you? a therapist once goaded me. Wife Two was not the only one who found something unhealthy about our relationship, not was the therapist the only one to wonder if it hadn't been a factor in my remaining single all these years.)

They hold each other tightly for a few moments as the dog, a miniature dachshund, barks and leaps at them.

A riddle: If it was true what she said, that she expected nothing from her husband, why was she forever seething with disappointment?

Having your dog is like having a part of you here.

Kristin. You cannot settle for anything less than the love that is between God and the soul.

So now you know, Kristin, that I have compromised much, both my land and my honor. You would certainly be much better served if you stayed with Simon Andressøn." Kristin put her arms around his neck. "We will stand by what we swore to each other last night, Erlend—if you feel as I do.

I stared until I was blind at the fact that Otto didn't understand me. It never occurred to me that I didn't understand him.

I hoped that I would give to my marriage the same nurturing that I found easy to give to the corn and the tomatoes. Raising a garden and keeping a marriage in shape are not that different.

Why does causation run always from past to future, or does it make sense to think that the future might influence the past?

No," Jude agreed softly, "but we can empathize. Anyone who's been in a relationship where one partner blames the other for their own inadequacies knows the kind of pain involved. Strange how it keeps happening. There are enough unpleasant people out there in the world to cut you down to size. What everyone needs at home is someone to support and bolster them.

God's incomprehensibility cannot be superseded. Human existence, therefore, could be described as grounded in the abyss of mystery, and human relationship with God could be characterized as openness to mystery.