Relationships Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

Dad has shamelessly played the Mom card. Against which there is no defense.

Forever is a measure of time used by people who share an ordinary love. Our extraordinary love is immeasurable...for us, forever just won’t do.

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.

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

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

You daughter is prudish?” There was a gleam of triumph in Helena Winter’s face. Fee grimaced. Prudish? No, not that she could claim. Far too mild a word for what she felt.

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

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

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.

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.

Our worth comes from the promises we keep.

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”.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive.

I feel like I've lived numerous lives...and you can explore my incarnations through my works.

Simplification establishes an unspoken emphasis on relationship.

You must be committed to your children first. Otherwise, they will receive the leftovers.

The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in believing that we are not in control of, but the answer for our children.

My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden.