Relationship Quotes

Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.

I think it's important to know yourself before you try to deal with a relationship.

The yoga of love is for those who want an all-consuming relationship with their teacher. They see the teacher as an extension of God, of eternity - which all of us are.

The relationship between the student and teacher is ultimately important. In higher spirituality we don't study a subject as much as a person.

True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.

If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you need to sever the relationship.

I have a great deal of spiritual dignity. It's on loan from eternity, and you do too, and we have to use it in our relationship with each other.

In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things of the student because the student is in graduate school.

You go on reacting to the image not to the person, and hence there is no relationship. When there is no image, then there is relationship.

Relationship is a mirror.. Every moment the other reveals you, exposes you. The closer the relationship, the clearer is the mirror.

Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship.

I'm sort of...coming off a bad relationship," "When did it end?" "Slightly before it started.

Wild groups of chimpanzees attack their enemies like gangs. What they completely lack, precisely because of their strong territorial behavior, is a friendly relationship with their neighbors.

Sincerity in sadhna and eagerness to serve is the basis of one's relationship with the spiritual master.

If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don't change because of it. It's just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.

Frank [Moore Cross], publicly dissects the text but he has a private, passionate relationship to the text that he doesn't often speak of publicly.

I sense that what you two [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] share is that you each have a public relationship to the Biblical text and a somewhat private relationship to the Biblical text.

Who would have thought that grieving an old relationship and enjoying a new one could happen simultaneously, in parallel? Yet another thing you only find out once it's happening to you.

We both know the limits of this relationship. It's understood. And as long as we're both comfortablewith that, nobody gets hurt. It's basic.

I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.

The transatlantic relationship is vital for both our countries: France will remain a reliable ally of the United States. Nevertheless, ally does not mean aligned.

I feel conflicted about my relationship with social media.

Unfortunately, on my father's side we have a nonexistent relationship. But my mother and sister and I live very closely, we remain in the same city and we see each other every day.

I think we all have a love/hate relationship with the media.

It's a fun idea, to follow a couple very slowly and show every nook and cranny of their relationship.

The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty.

You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.

Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender. If no other relationship in our experience is one of self-surrender, if it's all contractual, people won't know how to believe.

We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.

I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.

You need a relationship with Jesus, and I had never heard that before. So when my mom told me about that, I said, "Okay, let me try this." And so I did.

Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.

Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.

It's important not to ditch your mates when you're in a relationship. Lots of girls do it, but you need to remember they will always be there for you.

I could not possibly be in a relationship now for more than six days. When I was younger, I might have said six months, although I think the longest relationship I was ever in was three years.

The universe is alive and conscious, and it responds to our intent when we have our intimate relationship with the universe and see it not as separate but as our extended body.

In an ongoing relationship, each current criticism packs the punches of all the others that have gone before.

I think every woman goes through a relationship where she is with a guy that is really not right for her. You get lost in it.

Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.

A man who does not know how to have a relationship of friendship with a woman - I'm not talking about misogynists, who are sick - well, he's a man who is missing something.

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

If you change your relationship with time, you will change your life. The most important time of your life is right now.

In order to be not bound by the tether of time, we must have a relationship with the timeless.

All relationships are a reflection of our relationship to ourself.

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

I'm extremely moved by the loving, caring relationship the President always seems to have with his imaginary son.

There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing.

Food is fabulous, and having a good relationship with it will make you healthy and happy.

It's [her new house] kind of like my relationship. I'm like nurturing it and like spending a lot of time there and making sure that everything is perfect. It's like my new boyfriend.