Relationship Quotes - Page 61

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.

To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.

Sex isn't the priority anymore, now I'm 65. But it still goes on. I want it and she doesn't, same as ever.

Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.

I've liked different women at different times in my life. I've been attracted to white women. I've been attracted to black women. I've been attracted to Asian women. I've been attracted to various subspecies of women. I can say with gratitude that I've been able to experiment.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

Every person is born with a seed of greatness.

For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.

The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness.

I'm washed, I'm forgiven, I'm whole, and I'm healed. I'm cleansed and I'm glory bound. I am only a sojourner on the earth.

I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to the following conclusion: "I thought to myself, well if that's the case and if what I'm scared of isn't death, but getting to the end with regrets, then I've got to figure out what would be the things that I would regret when I got to the last act if I hadn't done them or achieved them by then. And they were: having an intimate relationship and having made a difference."

Children, those who are unmarried should conserve their vital energy by maintaining celibacy. To turn what we gain by this in to ojas (vitality), we also need to do spiritual practice. With increase in ojas, our intelligence, memory, health and beauty will also increase. We will gain lasting mental quietude.

If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.

Nothing is more cheerful than talking about our friends' shortcomings.

It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another.

How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

The best relationships are when you both want to make each other happy - you buy the groceries, I do the dishes.

Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship.