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Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
Marianne Faithfull, Faithful 199
Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.
Kaleel Jamison
There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.
J. Krishnamurti
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
W. H. Auden
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton
I hate and I love: why I do so you may well ask. I do not know, but I feel it happen and am in agony.Odi et amo: quare id facium, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
Catullus, Carmina
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.
Bob Seger
Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Walter Benjamin
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Octavio Paz
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Quentin Crisp
It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Henry Winkler
A king's son is no nobler than his company.
Scottish Proverb
In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.
Charles Caleb Colton
It seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than the night before, like a switch has been flicked somewhere, and the person who was just a friend is suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
Jeffrey Bell, The XFiles (Episod
All things need watching, working at, caring for and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be treated indifferently, or abused or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention care and concern and especially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.
Richard L. Evans
