Relationship Quotes - Page 42

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go.

War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?" - Quellcrist Falconer

But people find it very difficult to be a loving person, so they create a relationship - and befool that way that 'Now I am a loving person because I am in a relationship.' And the relationship may be just one of monopoly, possessiveness, exclusiveness.

The word relationship is beautiful. The original meaning of the root from which the word to relate comes is exactly the same as to respond. Relationship comes from that word respond. If you have any image of your wife or husband, you cannot respond, and hence relate, to the truth of the person. And we all go on carrying images.

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

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.

Long distance relationships are living proof that love is not just physical. I can feel you next to me even when you're thousands of miles away. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

Real love takes work. You have to be willing to make the effort.

Finding fault in others, just for the sake of finding fault, we will pollute our own minds.

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

A good relationship is a competition of generosity.

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.

Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.

The relationship with yourself is the most important relationship you’ll ever have.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

People who are obsessed with God have an intimate relationship with Him. They are nourished by God's Word throughout the day because they know that forty minutes on Sunday is not enough to sustain them for a whole week, especially when they will encounter so many distractions and alternative messages.

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

I love coming home to somebody, I love being in a relationship.

When we understand our relationship to God, we also understand our relationship to one another.

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads, and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.