Relation Quotes - Page 9

If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person. then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all.

The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.

Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

A girl does not need anyone who does not need her.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal.

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.

I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

Do not demand love. Begin to love. You will be loved.

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

I need a soul mate so that I can be who I am, naked. I want there to be someone who picks up my heavy, bleeding heart and takes it somewhere safe and warm.

All I'm telling you to do is to be smart about it. Know that if this man isn't looking for a serious relationship, you're not going to change his mind just because you two are going on dates and being intimate. You could be the most perfect woman on the Lord's green earth-you're capable of interesting conversation, you cook a mean breakfast, you hand out backrubs like sandwiches, you're independent (which means, to him, that you're not going to be in his pockets)-but if he's not ready for a serious relationship, he going to treat you like sports fish.

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.