Best 4064 quotes in «relationship quotes» category

Living with integrity means...not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships; asking for what you want and need from others; speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension; behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values; making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.

Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

Love is touching souls.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and yours alone. Stay in touch with it and use it.

Males and females have never seemed to fully understand each other. It will probably continue this way, but I think that's part of the magic of it all.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.

Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.

Men don't come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We're looking across the room at you, and we don't care about your hopes and dreams. We don't care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.

Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one.

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.

My best relationship is the one I have with myself. I know I am always connected to a Universe that loves me. I draw loving people and loving experiences to me.

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the "give" part.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Never ruin an appology with an excuse.

Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.

No strings attached, your love is so WiFi.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

Now I see that all relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person. Whether we use our bodies or a keyboard, it all comes down to two minds crying out from their solitude.

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Now women are funny animals. You never know when you are with them - they don’t often know where they are with themselves . It’s no good trying to find out what makes them tick. It just can’t be done. They have more moods than an army of cats with lives, and all you can hope is to spot the mood you’re after when it turns up and step in quick. Hesitate you’re a dead duck, unless you’re one of those guys who like slow approach that might get you somewhere in a week or in a month or even a year.