Relationship Quotes - Page 57

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

If he loves, he wants to make a relationship out of it immediately! He wants to get married. He wants to create a certain conditioning. He wants to make it a contract. Or he enters a church, or he enters a political party, or he enters into any club and he wants to be structured, he wants to know where he stands in the hierarchy, in what relationship. He wants to have an identity - that 'I am this.' He does not want to remain uncertain. And life is uncertain. Only death is certain.

My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship. They will be loving to each other, but not being possessive of each other. They will be sharing with each other all their joys and all their blessings, but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating, thinking of enslaving the other person.

I am a little old fashioned. I believe that in a relationship a man and a woman are never equal.

In God’s great plan, every detail is important, even yours, even my humble little witness, even the hidden witness of those who live their faith with simplicity in everyday family relationships, work relationships, friendships. There are the saints of every day, the “hidden” saints, a sort of “middle class of holiness” to which we can all belong.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

It doesn't matter what the other is being, doing, having, saying, wanting, demanding. It doesn't matter what the other is thinking, expecting, planning. It only matters what you are being in relationship to that.

If you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

The strength of our relationships is measured by how much people can count on us.

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.

In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance through the tender hearts of my friends.

I confessed recently to an old friend, "I realized I was looking at you, in your visit, through old glasses. Speaking old words. Telling old stories. I realize that in my life I've made so many physical changes and I need to give my spirit time to catch up." Time for my spirit to look at my friend through the new glasses of current life experiences. Old friends are precious. They become even more treasured when they are wrapped in the currentness of life experiences and not relegated to the past in which they once lived.

We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.

On the whole I prefer cats to women because cats seldom if ever use the word 'relationship'.

Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

Relationships carry the whole universe within them. They can be everything, nothing, here, then gone. One moment, loving someone makes you shine; the next, it feels like matter and antimatter colliding.

People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Love is touching souls.