Relationship Quotes - Page 36

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.

True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.

Look upon others as being part of yourself.

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Baby I'll never forget none of that. Girl I told you I was comin back.

When raindrops hit the tin roof it's crazy. That's a metaphor, did I lose you baby?

I got more than a thing for you, tattoo wit a ink for you right over my heart girl, I'll do the unthinkable.

A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

You become that to which you are most exposed.

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.

The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow human beings on an equal footing; their relationships with others are defined solely in terms of power and weakness. Therefore, they must accumulate as much power as possible, with the aim of becoming invulnerable and proving this invulnerability.

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

Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place," we posit an intimate relationship to a set of stories connected to a particular location, such as Hong Kong or the Grand Canyon or the bed where we were born, thinking of histories and the evolution of personalities in a local context. Having "a sense of self" means possessing a set of stories about who we are and with whom and why.