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

Once I ran to you, now I run from you.

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.

Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.

Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

Only someone who had cried a great deal understands why someone else wants to stop the tears.

Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.

One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time.

Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.

People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Real love takes work. You have to be willing to make the effort.

Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer.

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.

Relationships give us a reason to live. Revenge.

Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

Relationships become rocky when men and women fail to acknowledge they are biologically different and when each expects the other to live up to their expectations. Much of the stress we experience in relationships comes from the false belief that men and women are now the same and have the same priorities, drives and desires

Relationship is a mirror.. Every moment the other reveals you, exposes you. The closer the relationship, the clearer is the mirror.

Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Sex isn't the priority anymore, now I'm 65. But it still goes on. I want it and she doesn't, same as ever.

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

Remember: courage, unused, diminishes. Commitment, unexercised, wanes. Love, unshared, dissipates.

She could have a Grammy I'd still treat her ass like a nominee.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.