Relationships Quotes - Page 13

Until you can see it in your mind, you will not see it with your eyes. Vision precedes sight.

If we don’t express truth and love in relationships, they simply become a state of isolation with somebody (some body) still around.

The reason why we get the same partners is not because people are the same, but because we pull the dark shadow of past hurts over our eyes and we live the same all over again. We change the actors, but never the masks we give them in our play.

Give yourself permission to dream, to choose, to decide.

It takes a very long time to sever a marriage in which children are involved. There is a table, two chairs, and a small pile of bargaining chips. This is how it begins, but it ends with one chair in an empty room. The days darken. The children are slices open and split down the middle. Someone takes an arm; someone takes a foot. The car pulling into the driveway on a Friday afternoon becomes a hearse, and everything is couched in lies. The house of old assumes a silence.

You can NEVER be like someone else! Just be yourself and you will find that you'll be much happier that way and accomplish more as well.

If God gives you a gift and you don't know what to do with it, it won't make you happy. Some of you God gave a wonderful husband but you can't make a home and some of you God gave a wonderful wife but you can't make a good husband. Some of you can't even unwrap the gift so that you can appreciate it.

And yet their reward appear not, and their labor had no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the heathen, and I see that they flow in wealth, and think not upon thy commandments.

Love alone means nothing unless you have a tortured heart for it to soothe.

How we care for ourselves gives our brain messages that shape our self-worth so we must care for ourselves in every way, every day.

If you fall in love, make sure your landing is soft.

Decide on the future you want to experience, then find out the habits that will produce it and practice them daily.

She was at the same table near the back where three nights ago I'd sat entranced by her songs. And where the two of us had talked like old friends.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

She kept reminding me she was at a wedding, which didn’t really help my emotional state, if you know what I mean.

These be they that have put off the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal, and have confessed the name of God: now are they crowned, and receive palms.

Sure. You want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive. But a relationship is like a bridge where you meet other people half-way. That means if you want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive, you have to be touching, inspiring and bring the fire of your aliveness to the union of your companionship.

To live a successful life and make a difference in the world, you must continue to dream.

When you walk around feeling quietly upset, frustrated, angry or some other negative emotion, people around you will detect it to some degree or another, even if only subconsciously.

Because that’s what unfaithfulness is, isn’t it? A cancer that’s always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship. It’s happened once, it could happen again, so you’re always looking for telltale signs or symptoms to show that it’s reappeared...

I think I must have invented you on one of those days I was really bored.

Your life is a picture of the decisions and choices you have made in the past, and your future depends on the quality of the decisions you make today and tomorrow.

Adding to my emotional dizziness on Sunday, I spoke with my sister, who kept noting how amazing Michael is, and what a brave and selfless man he is for having helped as he did.

But men and women are different in the way that they feel loved. Men like to be admired for what they do, for their integrity and their accomplishments, whether it’s at work or at the gym or mowing the lawn, because it makes them feel manly. When a woman tells a man that she is proud of him, or she tells him that he did a good job, he’ll about bend over backwards to take care of her and love her.” “But women like attention from men, because it makes them feel feminine and adored. That’s why they’re always fixin’ themselves up, doing their hair, wearing pretty clothes and makeup and jewelry and perfume. It’s all to attract your attention, you know.” (Thelma Jenkins)

To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.

Why, you are a man of heart!""Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.

We spoke on the phone for the first time that morning. My back against the chest of drawers, my knees tucked under my

Worldly relationships are not true [are not real] it is a ‘business arrangement’.

Still, we've attempted to argue when necessary; you've got to be able to let loose and even lose your temper a bit if you're finding it hard to breathe. Closeness has to be like running water; it mustn't stagnate and sour.

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

Unconditional Love is the outer expression of Inner Peace.

When words don’t add up in love, it is because of six possible reasons: 1. They are afraid to tell you the truth because you will leave them. 2. They enjoy being a liar or playing people because of ego reasons and/or control. 3. They don’t know the truth themselves. 4. They are undecided. 5. They refuse to let their guard down and be vulnerable because you or someone else have hurt them tremendously. 6. You are not being told all the information because of a break down in communication.

Did I ever tell you about the day I finally let go of him? That day that led me to you?

You are not easily forgotten.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

A life dedicated to serving others is the life we should all aspire to live.

As I accept the flowers, I release my grip on the balloons, and they bounce gently against the ceiling the way they did before—hovering, annoyed, frustrated, contained by the ceiling and disappointed by the limits of life.

Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.

You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.

Greatness is achieved when you fulfil your purpose by doing what you were born to do.

I do not have any trust fund, I have always trusted God for all my funds.

The conflict hasn't gotten worst but the contest has really changed.............

One pretty amazing thing we learned early on was that the more time we spent together, the better our relationship was.

He certainly is very charming, but he makes me feel slightly ill at ease—almost as if I were a woman manquée, if there could be such a thing—you know, something lacking in me.""Oh, well, that's hardly his fault.""No," Dulcie agreed. "Mine, of course.

No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.

As thou know not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou know not the works of what makes all.

I believe that the ‘love of your life’ is just a person that you chose. You choose them because you believe that they’re it.

Words, Kaden. Only lost unsaid words that added up to good-bye.

It's far more important why is being said, than what.

Dating a man is like flying a kite. You only need to know when to wind up the string or let it out.

Hard work is the foundation of the abundant life, and sacrifice is needed to make it reality.

In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." We have a tendency to dwell on tragedy and use it as a justification for tragic occurrences that follow,rather than parse the tragedy, taking from it important lessons and using those lessons to avoid similar tragedies.

There are no guarantees with finally being honest and coming clean with people. Sometimes you don’t win love back. Sometimes you lose the love you had. Sometimes you crush people that cared. Sometimes you break apart families. Sometimes you lose your career. Sometimes you lose your way of life. Sometimes you end up worse off than you were before. However, you walk away with a heart free from lies, regret and you have closure. Within time, you find yourself in a life that is far from the prison you once lived in. This type of freedom is the scariest road you will ever travel. However, it is the road God will never let you travel alone.

Inspiration is deeply personal. It’s your responsibility and no one else’s to inspire yourself.

All the failures in my life freed me from all my fears so that I can succeed.

A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think.

Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.

You don’t choose your purpose, you simply discover it.

There is a point you reach, I mean, when you are just something bad that happened to someone else.

You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.