Quotes About Relationship

How could he have treated me so, he who congratulated himself on his belief that I was his equal? I had never been his equal. To him, perhaps, any deep acceptance of equality was impossible. He saw only those who were there to be saved, and those did the saving.

But then, gradually, miraculously, things began to clear between us. We were able to speak as we'd once done, with great love and little calculation.

I liked him very much but did not trust either man.

When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.

To seek God means first of all to let yourself be found by him. He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He is the God of Jesus Christ. He is your God not because He is yours but because you are His. To choose God is to realize that you are known and loved in a way surpassing anything you can imagine long before anyone had thought of you or spoken your name.

I have come to believe we should think of knower and known as persons in relationship, where knowing is the relationship. This relationship has covenantal dimensions. By that I mean that the knower pledges her- or himself to the yet-to-be-known, the way a groom pledges himself to a bride.

But we all have a unique way of seeing and relating to the world, too. We are each utterly distinct persons. Out of our distinct love, we notice distinct aspects of reality, and reality responds to us along the lines of our distinctive care. Also, we all view life from a vantage point at least slightly different from anyone else's. And our experiences and training distinguish us from each other. Yet, as persons, we can share and delight in our differences.

It's easy to fall in love with a girl who brings her husband a kingdom.' - Kelan

What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? … Therein lies the mystery of eroticism.

It's hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.

Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.

We no longer plow the land together; today we talk. We have come to glorify verbal communication. I speak; therefore I am. We naively believe that the essence of who we are is most accurately conveyed through words.

It takes two people to create a pattern, but only one to change it.

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

Now it's different, and to me it was shockingly humble, but there with my girl in my arms and our child in her belly I knew I had reached the moment my life had been waiting for. I was going to be a father and a husband. I spanked her bottom and cranked up the tunes.

Here's my personal definition of a Buddhist: someone who prioritizes cultivating her relationship to her own heartmind—and her relationship to other sentient beings—above whatever else she might achieve in life.

Already she meant everything to him but he'd completely forgotten her name.

A frequent exchange of text messages is not a relationship. It's not even a pen-pal.

Ik geloof niet in objectieve vaststellingen. Oneindig samenspel van menselijke wisselwerkingen.

Quando pensi che l'altro non ti consideri abbastanza, significa che gli sei legato e per via di questo legame non sei indipendente. Quanto meno ti aspetti, tanto più ricevi. Ciò che attendiamo da un altro, dunque dall'esterno, lo abbiamo inconsciamente dentro di noi. Anziché attenderlo dall'esterno, dobbiamo svilupparlo dentro di noi, acquistandone consapevolezza. L'anima non ha legami temporali, è eterna.

I know the intimate gestures he uses with women, but I still want to know the gestures he uses with God.

My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature.

Trust, like Christ-like love, is to be extended not because others deserve it but because they need it, because they can become trustworthy (or loving) by being nurtured in a community of trust and love. We need to extend trust, even if doing so makes us vulnerable to pain and great cost, in order to save our own souls.

Prayer is a refusal to live as an outsider to my God and my own soul.