Relationship Quotes - Page 9

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

A girl does not need anyone who does not need her.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal.

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.

I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

Do not demand love. Begin to love. You will be loved.

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

I need a soul mate so that I can be who I am, naked. I want there to be someone who picks up my heavy, bleeding heart and takes it somewhere safe and warm.

All I'm telling you to do is to be smart about it. Know that if this man isn't looking for a serious relationship, you're not going to change his mind just because you two are going on dates and being intimate. You could be the most perfect woman on the Lord's green earth-you're capable of interesting conversation, you cook a mean breakfast, you hand out backrubs like sandwiches, you're independent (which means, to him, that you're not going to be in his pockets)-but if he's not ready for a serious relationship, he going to treat you like sports fish.

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

I don't need someone that sees what's good about me. I need someone that sees the bad and still wants me.