Relationship Quotes - Page 8

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure.

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

If you're lucky enough to be different, never change.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.

Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person. then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all.

The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.

Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.