Relationship Quotes - Page 15

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic.

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

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

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes the father; the distant becomes the near; strangeness becomes intimacy and fear becomes love. (2) We enter into a new relationship with our fellow men. Hatred becomes love; selfishness becomes service; and bitterness becomes forgiveness. (3) We enter into a new relationship with ourselves. Weakness becomes strength; frustration becomes achievement; and tension becomes peace.

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.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.

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

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.