Relationship Quotes - Page 39

I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.

The drivenness in any addiction is about the ruptured self, the belief that one is flawed as a person. The content of the addiction, whether it is alcoholism or work, is an attempt at an intimate relationship. The workaholic with her work or the alcoholic with his booze are having a love affair. Each alters mood to avoid the feeling of loneliness and hurt in the underbelly of shame.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.

Most real relationships are involuntary.

I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press?

Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear.

My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.

I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

Baby you're my everything, you're all I ever wanted, we can do it real big, bigger than you've ever done it.

I wonder why I never learn my lesson. It's feeling like the second chance and it's the first impression

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

I have a very close relationship with my parents.

The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.

All conflict comes from attachment.

Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.

When I was in my twenties and just so sexually prolific, the first time I went to Machu Picchu, this guy, a spiritual teacher, says to me, "When you make love, you must be making love." I thought that was the greatest advice I had ever heard.

Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.

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.

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.