Relationships Quotes

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

Charles Lamb

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere

Ronald Reagan

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person.

Vi Putnam

People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie.

Truman Capote

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Luis Fortuno

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Luis Fortuno

Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd ever wanted to hurt any girl. In fact, he wasn't sure he had ever wanted to hurt a girl before. Usually he just wanted them, and then he wanted them to leave him alone.

Cassandra Clare

Where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. That was where we could go.

Ernest Hemingway

The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.

Steve Maraboli

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.

Gerda Lerner

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

William Shakespeare

Love, children, and work are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world

Bertrand Russell

How can our relationship grow when you don't respect my need to discuss everything that is wrong with you?

Michael Lipsey

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

Mary Catherwood

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Jim Rohn

The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.

Marguerite Duras

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

Albert Camus

The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.

Jodi Picoult

Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.

Franklin D. Roosevelt