Relationship Quotations

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Youthful social media users share their personal lives online, tweeting and posting everything from their relationship status to their current location to their latest purchases. Yet, when it comes to discussing deeper personal finance issues or seeking personal finance advice online, the majority of young adults typically shy away from the web.

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

I tell my kids and my grandkids, 'Never forget where you came from. Never forget your roots.' My grandkids, they didn't go through the hard times as much as other ones in our family did. One thing is to just never forget where you came from and you never forget that nothing is more important than your relationship with Jesus Christ.

I have a great relationship with everyone in my family, but I'm closer to my brothers than anyone else because they give me a lot of guidance.

I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong.

As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.

If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.'

The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution, these relations stem from the circumstance that the higher organisms, in the course of millions of years, have gradually evolved from simpler ones.

For me, relationship is very important. I can lose money, but I cannot lose a relationship. The test is, at the end of a conversation or a negotiation, both must smile.

Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance and attachment, with the family, and it erodes the relationship between them and their parents.

Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship to be truly happy? Maybe. But you know what? That's fine with me.

The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.

We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons.

I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far too young to have developed a great deal of political awareness. I remember it, though - my mother excited at the dinner table because Britain had its first female prime minister.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

My family and I are so close, it's important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays.

I am not possessive at all. In every relationship I have had, the girl has left me. And the fundamental complaint has been that I am self-contained. I am just comfortable with myself and am always on an adventure.

God doesn't want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us.

A relationship is work, and it changes. And you go with the changes. It's more good times than bad times, but it's not always good. You have to overcome those issues and move on.

I tend to be a person who starts with the presumption that I should trust you until you abuse the privilege, and then our relationship is forever changed. That's a very big line, and chances are it's not going to work if it's crossed. I warn people that this is how I'm going to deal with it.

'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I wanted a father and a son who really loved each other, which would be visible on the first page and would still be there on the last page.

I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

It's a complicated relationship with a guitar. I love the Bullet, for sure.

My relationship with money is that it's a tool to be self-sufficient, but it's not something that is a part of who I am.

I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.

I personally like to hang out with people; if I'm playing their mom, I'd like to go have lunch with the kid, and I want to try to spend as much time with people that I can while we are working together if we're supposed to have a familiar relationship with them, because I think it reads.

The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I'll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities.

I think it can be fun to be single and date like when you don't want a relationship. Or when you've just gotten out of a relationship, and, after get over the initial shock, you're thinking, hey, it's kind of cool being single.

I think any workplace relationship is dangerous. That's been my personal experience. They haven't always worked out the best. But I know other people for whom it worked out great.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.

I once had a long relationship with a lady, and wherever I went in the world, if I saw something she would look great in, a gown or gloves or a ring, I always knew what color she liked most. I knew her size, what material she appreciated most, and I spent the whole time buying gifts for her. And I loved her very much.

When I was a little kid, it was not uncommon for a cousin or an uncle, before they would even say 'Hello,' to gush, 'You know, your mother's brisket is just incredible; it's so good.' That was an inspiration for creating a love song in that well-worn terrain of the relationship between a Jewish boy and his mother.

Diana and I had a very good relationship with no personal problems. The only problem we did have was with the media, and the only place we could have any real privacy was at Kensington Palace, as they could not get to us there.

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.

For the United States to be a global leader, we have to have a very tight relationship with Europe. And we've held that relationship since 1949 when we established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO. NATO is the bond. It's a security bond.

I had a very close relationship with my grandmother. She actually helped raise me.

I think there's a kind of love relationship between an actor and an audience, and this is something I really feel with the audiences in France.

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

NATO has a special relationship with countries far away from Europe: Australia, Japan, South Korea. They have joint projects and programmes which are being implemented without these countries becoming members of NATO.

Food is the main engine that drives connectedness, relationship in Chinese society.

It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.

The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.

I have never been in a serious relationship and never had a break-up, so I can't tug on my heartstrings that way. But whenever I experience a strong emotion in life, I definitely have to throw myself into my songwriting. It is very therapeutic.

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

The relationship between a client must be 'we.'

The nicest part of the prize, perhaps, is the effect on my friends and family. Each of them feels proud and happy to have the relationship with me that they do. In a way, it's as though they received an award too, and I like that very much.