Relationships Quotes

We must always be careful never to make more enemies than we could handle if they were all to attack at once.

To patch up a relationship, understanding is the needle, and love is the thread.

We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

..."There’s really no way I can explain it to her without *still* sounding like scum, " I complained to Sinter."The 'sympathy shack-up' doesn’t score many points, " he agreed.*

In a relationship, no amount of extra effort on your part can make up for a lack of effort on theirs.

Your religion cannot be divorced from your relationships.

The bitterest fruit tastes sweet when you share it with someone you love.

Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.

the harsh truth of every relationship, even between those who love each other, like fathers and sons and daughters, or husbands and wives, is that the love is always unequal.

If you stand in the way of two people who were meant to be together, destiny's train will run you over.

There are many fish in the sea, but never let a good one swim away.

Your best is good enough.

In my family strange is relative.

Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path — and that person could even be you.

Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap.

In every relationship one must sacrifice to show thy love. Are you willing to make sacrifices for someone you love?

If she were alive today, she would be ashamed of me. I'm trying to change that.

If someone you love asks you to give up something you love, don't do it.

...I’m sorry you grew up without me and that fatherly moments came second hand like clothing and toys from your brothers...

To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single.

You men never change. Is that all you can see? Proud grandfathers of a large....” Mrs. Werner smacked her husband upside the head and took the pictures away.

To a man, a woman is fun to be with … until she gains weight. To a woman, a man is fun to live with … until he loses his job.

The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as "seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.

Idolatry means turning a good thing into the ultimate thing.

There’s no such thing as half family.

If i can't be your true love, i want to be your worst nightmare.

Perhaps I am a rose-picker and a breeze-sniffer.

Wait for the man who will do anything to be your everything. And will continue to do it after he has your heart.

I've had an amazing life. One filled with blessings I could never have imagined.Depressed is the last thing I am. Realistic, yes. Sad, never.

I will spend an eternity loving you, caring for you, respecting you, showing you every day that I hold you as high as the stars.

Glory had rehearsed angry outbursts in anticipation of his arrival. She began to hope he would come so she could tell him exactly what she thought.

I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.

...be more than a person she would settle for... be a person she would yearn for.

You married into the family. You have to love me. It's a contractual obligation.

When you finally meet the right one for you, it suddenly becomes clear why everyone else was so wrong.

He was supposed to be the first man to tell her that she was beautiful and help her determine who she was before anyone had the opportunity to label her. She was supposed to be his “little girl”.

Our worth comes from the promises we keep.

May the way I look at you, the way I speak with you, and the way I treat you reflect the truth that... I have loved you since forever.

Husband and wife are like a pair of scissors, joined together for life but always moving in opposite directions. If anyone comes in between, they join together and cut them off.

Being with you today is worth all the broken hearts of yesterday.

I felt a surge of love for my aunt. We disagreed about so many things, yet here was family: the people who kept dancing with you, even after the music stopped.

Family: a foundation! Family: a ‘cloth’ that keeps the ‘body’!

A relationship is built on trust and faith, and not on rules.

This is the beginning of what we will come to call the Upstairs-Downstairs, Linga-Singha wars.

The blessing begins at home.

Keep your heart wide open and you’ll be received with open hearts — not by everyone, but to be received by one open heart is more than worth the journey.

But early on I saw this: You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.

It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!

Love encompasses so much, reaches so far, and heals so deeply, that any attempt to describe it, no matter how poetic, only dilutes it.

like many families, everyone wandered around like children in a funhouse—they could hardly see one another around the corners, and what they could see was completely distorted.