QUOTES ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
Quotes about relationships capture the complexity of connection, love, and understanding between people. They reflect both the beauty and the challenges that come with sharing our lives with others. The following collection offers insights that may resonate, comfort, or inspire reflection on the bonds we form. Select Another Topic
All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.
- Tim LaHaye
Tribulation Force
Nakajima’s past would always be there, so the foundation could crumble at any moment. That’s what happens, I realized, when people destroy other people.
- Banana Yoshimoto
The Lake
Something snapped inside her. “Of course I’m afraid! Relationships do bad things to me.” He started to respond, but the pain had gone on long enough, and she didn’t want to hear it. “You know what I want? I want peace. I want a good job and a decent place to live. I want to read books and listen to music and have time to make some female friendships that are going to last. When I wake up in the morning, I want to know that I have a decent shot at being happy. And here’s what’s really sad. Until I met you, I was almost there.
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Ain't She Sweet?
Honor your relationships by developing listening skills.
- Allan Lokos
Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden or, Life in the Woods
I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good.
-- from Quantum of Solace
-- from Quantum of Solace
- Ian Fleming
For Your Eyes Only
Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!
(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering)
(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering)
- Deborah L. McCarragher
Mission Possible: Spiritual Covering
In our relationship, we have very well-defined roles: I am the Vice President of Logistics; he's the CEO of Emotional Support.
- Ariel Meadow Stallings
Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides
In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." We have a tendency to dwell on tragedy and use it as a justification for tragic occurrences that follow,rather than parse the tragedy, taking from it important lessons and using those lessons to avoid similar tragedies.
- Megan Karasch
Although I notice there is never a truly good time to have a nice long chat with one´s mother-in-law, unless you are having an extraordinary life and marriage and your mother-in-law is, say, Maureen Dowd, or Indira Gandhi. Someone of that ilk.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
You’re my princess, right? You were always going to be my princess, no matter what you were born, no matter who your dad married.
- Marissa Meyer
Winter
When you feel the emotional reaction of someone's supposed [verbal] attack, what you're doing is getting them to reflect to you that some portion of yourself feels that way about yourself. Otherwise you wouldn't react. You would just observe it - "oh interesting." - and move on with your day. But if you react to it, it's showing you some part of you actually is buying into this as true.
So say: "Well thank you: Thank you for showing that I was not loving all of myself."
And when you really start doing that, then you may start to see that someone else's attitude toward you may change.
So say: "Well thank you: Thank you for showing that I was not loving all of myself."
And when you really start doing that, then you may start to see that someone else's attitude toward you may change.
- Bashar
He felt like sin but tasted like love so, what’s a clumsy girl to do but stumble in delicious rapturous love.
- Melody Lee
Vine: Book of Poetry
They keep texting you wyd and wya — instead of how you feeling — what’s on your mind — and you wonder why you feel misunderstood
- Jill Telford
You can turn every ugly and damaging drama into a genuine blessing by seeing it differently. No one is suffering on purpose. We learn to give up the pleasure we feel in self-righteously blaming others. Healing happens when we see things differently. The question is: do you want suffering or peace? It's that simple.
- Donna Goddard
Waldmeer
But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don’t you think?
- Tove Jansson
Travelling Light
Every grievance you hold hides a little more of the light of the world from your eyes until the darkness becomes overwhelming. Everything you forgive restores that light. So ask yourself, who is it that you are really hurting?
- Donna Goddard
Waldmeer
If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.
One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being...
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Sabrina Thomas clutched the leather-bound notebook to her chest and tried not to be impatient as the elevator in the south tower of Texas Hospital near downtown Dallas stopped once again on its climb to the eighteenth and top floor. But it was difficult.
Dr. Cade Mathis, the bane of her existence, would reach Mrs. Ward’s room first and then there’d be hell to pay. Sabrina jabbed the button to close the doors as soon as the last person stepped onto the already crowded elevator.
Dr. Cade Mathis, the bane of her existence, would reach Mrs. Ward’s room first and then there’d be hell to pay. Sabrina jabbed the button to close the doors as soon as the last person stepped onto the already crowded elevator.
- Francis Ray When Morning Comes
But I want to see Clara, Charlie's friend, who's right up my street. I want to see her because I don't know where my street is; I don't even know which part of town it's in, which city, which country, so maybe she'll enable me to get my bearings.
- Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
It's a false premise to say that most monogamous people have chosen monogamy. Most people belong to the religion they were raised in...because that's what's familiar. That's the milieu they grew up in, and, for better or worse, they're just continuing the pattern. Until this traditionalist mindset is shaken loose, you would likely try from reflex to impose notions onto nonmonogamy that are not only untenable in the new context but spel sudden and messy doom even in situations that otherwise could be worked out.
- Anthony D. Ravenscroft
Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful
To keep myself from harming or calling N and to stave off the rage and despair, I focus on my extraordinary son, drink midrange Chardonnay every night after he is asleep, and make a barrage of late-night mail-order retail purchases placed from the couch. The couch has officially become my second battle station. I am angry and I have credit And I´m all blackened inside; I should wear a pointy witch hat around Larkspur as I go to the bank and drop A off at day care. It would be more honest.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
....Halfway up he saw her, and he forgot to breathe.
A soft white sweater hugged her breasts,. Dangling, beaded earrings in a snowflake design brushed her shoulders. Soft jeans accentuated a deliciously rounded ass....
Lily's pale blond hair, pinned up but with long tendrils teasing her nape and cheeks, gave her the illusion that a lover had just finished with her. Heavily lashed brown eyes defied any innocence.
And her bare feet somehow made her look half-naked.
A soft white sweater hugged her breasts,. Dangling, beaded earrings in a snowflake design brushed her shoulders. Soft jeans accentuated a deliciously rounded ass....
Lily's pale blond hair, pinned up but with long tendrils teasing her nape and cheeks, gave her the illusion that a lover had just finished with her. Heavily lashed brown eyes defied any innocence.
And her bare feet somehow made her look half-naked.
- Lori Foster
Yule Be Mine
All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.
- Tim LaHaye
Tribulation Force
Nakajima’s past would always be there, so the foundation could crumble at any moment. That’s what happens, I realized, when people destroy other people.
- Banana Yoshimoto
The Lake
Something snapped inside her. “Of course I’m afraid! Relationships do bad things to me.” He started to respond, but the pain had gone on long enough, and she didn’t want to hear it. “You know what I want? I want peace. I want a good job and a decent place to live. I want to read books and listen to music and have time to make some female friendships that are going to last. When I wake up in the morning, I want to know that I have a decent shot at being happy. And here’s what’s really sad. Until I met you, I was almost there.
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Ain't She Sweet?
Honor your relationships by developing listening skills.
- Allan Lokos
Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden or, Life in the Woods
I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good.
-- from Quantum of Solace
-- from Quantum of Solace
- Ian Fleming
For Your Eyes Only
Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!
(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering)
(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering)
- Deborah L. McCarragher
Mission Possible: Spiritual Covering
In our relationship, we have very well-defined roles: I am the Vice President of Logistics; he's the CEO of Emotional Support.
- Ariel Meadow Stallings
Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides
In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." We have a tendency to dwell on tragedy and use it as a justification for tragic occurrences that follow,rather than parse the tragedy, taking from it important lessons and using those lessons to avoid similar tragedies.
- Megan Karasch
Although I notice there is never a truly good time to have a nice long chat with one´s mother-in-law, unless you are having an extraordinary life and marriage and your mother-in-law is, say, Maureen Dowd, or Indira Gandhi. Someone of that ilk.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
You’re my princess, right? You were always going to be my princess, no matter what you were born, no matter who your dad married.
- Marissa Meyer
Winter
When you feel the emotional reaction of someone's supposed [verbal] attack, what you're doing is getting them to reflect to you that some portion of yourself feels that way about yourself. Otherwise you wouldn't react. You would just observe it - "oh interesting." - and move on with your day. But if you react to it, it's showing you some part of you actually is buying into this as true.
So say: "Well thank you: Thank you for showing that I was not loving all of myself."
And when you really start doing that, then you may start to see that someone else's attitude toward you may change.
So say: "Well thank you: Thank you for showing that I was not loving all of myself."
And when you really start doing that, then you may start to see that someone else's attitude toward you may change.
- Bashar
He felt like sin but tasted like love so, what’s a clumsy girl to do but stumble in delicious rapturous love.
- Melody Lee
Vine: Book of Poetry
They keep texting you wyd and wya — instead of how you feeling — what’s on your mind — and you wonder why you feel misunderstood
- Jill Telford
You can turn every ugly and damaging drama into a genuine blessing by seeing it differently. No one is suffering on purpose. We learn to give up the pleasure we feel in self-righteously blaming others. Healing happens when we see things differently. The question is: do you want suffering or peace? It's that simple.
- Donna Goddard
Waldmeer
But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don’t you think?
- Tove Jansson
Travelling Light
Every grievance you hold hides a little more of the light of the world from your eyes until the darkness becomes overwhelming. Everything you forgive restores that light. So ask yourself, who is it that you are really hurting?
- Donna Goddard
Waldmeer
If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.
One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being...
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Sabrina Thomas clutched the leather-bound notebook to her chest and tried not to be impatient as the elevator in the south tower of Texas Hospital near downtown Dallas stopped once again on its climb to the eighteenth and top floor. But it was difficult.
Dr. Cade Mathis, the bane of her existence, would reach Mrs. Ward’s room first and then there’d be hell to pay. Sabrina jabbed the button to close the doors as soon as the last person stepped onto the already crowded elevator.
Dr. Cade Mathis, the bane of her existence, would reach Mrs. Ward’s room first and then there’d be hell to pay. Sabrina jabbed the button to close the doors as soon as the last person stepped onto the already crowded elevator.
- Francis Ray When Morning Comes
But I want to see Clara, Charlie's friend, who's right up my street. I want to see her because I don't know where my street is; I don't even know which part of town it's in, which city, which country, so maybe she'll enable me to get my bearings.
- Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
It's a false premise to say that most monogamous people have chosen monogamy. Most people belong to the religion they were raised in...because that's what's familiar. That's the milieu they grew up in, and, for better or worse, they're just continuing the pattern. Until this traditionalist mindset is shaken loose, you would likely try from reflex to impose notions onto nonmonogamy that are not only untenable in the new context but spel sudden and messy doom even in situations that otherwise could be worked out.
- Anthony D. Ravenscroft
Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful
To keep myself from harming or calling N and to stave off the rage and despair, I focus on my extraordinary son, drink midrange Chardonnay every night after he is asleep, and make a barrage of late-night mail-order retail purchases placed from the couch. The couch has officially become my second battle station. I am angry and I have credit And I´m all blackened inside; I should wear a pointy witch hat around Larkspur as I go to the bank and drop A off at day care. It would be more honest.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
....Halfway up he saw her, and he forgot to breathe.
A soft white sweater hugged her breasts,. Dangling, beaded earrings in a snowflake design brushed her shoulders. Soft jeans accentuated a deliciously rounded ass....
Lily's pale blond hair, pinned up but with long tendrils teasing her nape and cheeks, gave her the illusion that a lover had just finished with her. Heavily lashed brown eyes defied any innocence.
And her bare feet somehow made her look half-naked.
A soft white sweater hugged her breasts,. Dangling, beaded earrings in a snowflake design brushed her shoulders. Soft jeans accentuated a deliciously rounded ass....
Lily's pale blond hair, pinned up but with long tendrils teasing her nape and cheeks, gave her the illusion that a lover had just finished with her. Heavily lashed brown eyes defied any innocence.
And her bare feet somehow made her look half-naked.
- Lori Foster
Yule Be Mine
All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.
- Tim LaHaye
Tribulation Force
Nakajima’s past would always be there, so the foundation could crumble at any moment. That’s what happens, I realized, when people destroy other people.
- Banana Yoshimoto
The Lake
Something snapped inside her. “Of course I’m afraid! Relationships do bad things to me.” He started to respond, but the pain had gone on long enough, and she didn’t want to hear it. “You know what I want? I want peace. I want a good job and a decent place to live. I want to read books and listen to music and have time to make some female friendships that are going to last. When I wake up in the morning, I want to know that I have a decent shot at being happy. And here’s what’s really sad. Until I met you, I was almost there.
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Ain't She Sweet?
Honor your relationships by developing listening skills.
- Allan Lokos
Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden or, Life in the Woods
I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good.
-- from Quantum of Solace
-- from Quantum of Solace
- Ian Fleming
For Your Eyes Only
Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!
(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering)
(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering)
- Deborah L. McCarragher
Mission Possible: Spiritual Covering
In our relationship, we have very well-defined roles: I am the Vice President of Logistics; he's the CEO of Emotional Support.
- Ariel Meadow Stallings
Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides
In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." We have a tendency to dwell on tragedy and use it as a justification for tragic occurrences that follow,rather than parse the tragedy, taking from it important lessons and using those lessons to avoid similar tragedies.
- Megan Karasch
Although I notice there is never a truly good time to have a nice long chat with one´s mother-in-law, unless you are having an extraordinary life and marriage and your mother-in-law is, say, Maureen Dowd, or Indira Gandhi. Someone of that ilk.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
You’re my princess, right? You were always going to be my princess, no matter what you were born, no matter who your dad married.
- Marissa Meyer
Winter
When you feel the emotional reaction of someone's supposed [verbal] attack, what you're doing is getting them to reflect to you that some portion of yourself feels that way about yourself. Otherwise you wouldn't react. You would just observe it - "oh interesting." - and move on with your day. But if you react to it, it's showing you some part of you actually is buying into this as true.
So say: "Well thank you: Thank you for showing that I was not loving all of myself."
And when you really start doing that, then you may start to see that someone else's attitude toward you may change.
So say: "Well thank you: Thank you for showing that I was not loving all of myself."
And when you really start doing that, then you may start to see that someone else's attitude toward you may change.
- Bashar
He felt like sin but tasted like love so, what’s a clumsy girl to do but stumble in delicious rapturous love.
- Melody Lee
Vine: Book of Poetry
They keep texting you wyd and wya — instead of how you feeling — what’s on your mind — and you wonder why you feel misunderstood
- Jill Telford
You can turn every ugly and damaging drama into a genuine blessing by seeing it differently. No one is suffering on purpose. We learn to give up the pleasure we feel in self-righteously blaming others. Healing happens when we see things differently. The question is: do you want suffering or peace? It's that simple.
- Donna Goddard
Waldmeer
But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don’t you think?
- Tove Jansson
Travelling Light
Every grievance you hold hides a little more of the light of the world from your eyes until the darkness becomes overwhelming. Everything you forgive restores that light. So ask yourself, who is it that you are really hurting?
- Donna Goddard
Waldmeer
If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.
One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being...
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Sabrina Thomas clutched the leather-bound notebook to her chest and tried not to be impatient as the elevator in the south tower of Texas Hospital near downtown Dallas stopped once again on its climb to the eighteenth and top floor. But it was difficult.
Dr. Cade Mathis, the bane of her existence, would reach Mrs. Ward’s room first and then there’d be hell to pay. Sabrina jabbed the button to close the doors as soon as the last person stepped onto the already crowded elevator.
Dr. Cade Mathis, the bane of her existence, would reach Mrs. Ward’s room first and then there’d be hell to pay. Sabrina jabbed the button to close the doors as soon as the last person stepped onto the already crowded elevator.
- Francis Ray When Morning Comes
But I want to see Clara, Charlie's friend, who's right up my street. I want to see her because I don't know where my street is; I don't even know which part of town it's in, which city, which country, so maybe she'll enable me to get my bearings.
- Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
It's a false premise to say that most monogamous people have chosen monogamy. Most people belong to the religion they were raised in...because that's what's familiar. That's the milieu they grew up in, and, for better or worse, they're just continuing the pattern. Until this traditionalist mindset is shaken loose, you would likely try from reflex to impose notions onto nonmonogamy that are not only untenable in the new context but spel sudden and messy doom even in situations that otherwise could be worked out.
- Anthony D. Ravenscroft
Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful
To keep myself from harming or calling N and to stave off the rage and despair, I focus on my extraordinary son, drink midrange Chardonnay every night after he is asleep, and make a barrage of late-night mail-order retail purchases placed from the couch. The couch has officially become my second battle station. I am angry and I have credit And I´m all blackened inside; I should wear a pointy witch hat around Larkspur as I go to the bank and drop A off at day care. It would be more honest.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
....Halfway up he saw her, and he forgot to breathe.
A soft white sweater hugged her breasts,. Dangling, beaded earrings in a snowflake design brushed her shoulders. Soft jeans accentuated a deliciously rounded ass....
Lily's pale blond hair, pinned up but with long tendrils teasing her nape and cheeks, gave her the illusion that a lover had just finished with her. Heavily lashed brown eyes defied any innocence.
And her bare feet somehow made her look half-naked.
A soft white sweater hugged her breasts,. Dangling, beaded earrings in a snowflake design brushed her shoulders. Soft jeans accentuated a deliciously rounded ass....
Lily's pale blond hair, pinned up but with long tendrils teasing her nape and cheeks, gave her the illusion that a lover had just finished with her. Heavily lashed brown eyes defied any innocence.
And her bare feet somehow made her look half-naked.
- Lori Foster
Yule Be Mine