Relationship Quotes

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

I always stayed married to my husband! Always, until the day he died! It's not true that we were separated!

There's a path from your HEART to mine.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you?

I don't know. I really don't. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life." She squeezed his hand. "And do you know what the answer was? The answer was that I wanted two things. First, I want you. I want us. I love you and I always have.

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes, and vice versa.

I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I'm caressing you as in the old days. I even touch your nose with mine to recapture the electric current that used to flush through my blood whenever I did so.

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

Our creation is the modification of relationship.

Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman

Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever.

Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.

You have been the last dream of my soul.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.

When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know it.

If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.

There is not love where there is no will.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

Love for thy love , and hand for hand I give.

I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that.

If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!

I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

love wasn't possible in just a couple of days. Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two can accomplish separately.

I believe in teaching just a few students, as teaching requires a constant alert observation on each individual in order to establish a direct relationship. A good teacher cannot be fixed in a routine, and many are just that. During teaching, each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting.

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that.

The only way to measure a loveris by the grandeur of the beloved.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.

Commitment, I finally said. Both people have to be committed. I think if two people are committed to the marriage, if they really want to make it work, then they'll find a way to do it. No matter what happens in life.

What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.

We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment.

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

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

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

Frankness invites frankness.

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

I wanted more of her, & no matter what happened between us, I already knew I’d never forget anything about her. As crazy as it sounded, she was becoming part of me, & I was already dreading the fact that we wouldn’t be able to spend the day together tomorrow. Or the day after, or the day after that. Maybe, I told myself, we could beat the odds