Best 4064 quotes in «relationship quotes» category

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.

Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.

He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring.

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

He who hath many friends hath none.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relationships of the profoundest kind through which we can realize ourselves, where self-revelation is possible, where interest in and love for soul is paramount.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.

I am a little old fashioned. I believe that in a relationship a man and a woman are never equal.

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

I am learning. I'm a slow learner. I repeat myself three times, relationship wise.

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.

I am sweet, I am ugly, I am mean if you love me. I'll try hard just to please you, when I say I don't need you.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

I can't 'make' you love me. But I can fill my pantry with your favourite snacks and offer you a weekly stipend of $75.

I can understand; you are really in a mess and there is no way out. I have heard that there are three rings of love: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffer-ring.

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.

I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.

I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

I don't think it's cool for people to say, 'You shouldn't reference God because I don't believe that, and I don't want to hear it.' Well, there's a lot of stuff I don't believe that I still gotta hear.

I don't need someone that sees what's good about me. I need someone that sees the bad and still wants me.

If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn't tell him that she wants a relationship, it will never become a relationship. If you give the guy the impression that casual is okay with you, that's all he'll ever want. Be straight with him from the start. If he gets scared and runs away, he wasn't right for you.

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you.'

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

I feel that we should always be a real friend, always, even to those who chose to be fake. Not because they are nice but because you are.

If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others.

If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.