Quotes about Relationships

To relate effectively with a wife, a husband, children, friends, or working associates, we must learn to listen. And this requires emotional strength. Listening involves patience, openness, and the desire to understand—highly developed qualities of character. It's so much easier to operate from a low emotional level and to give high-level advice. Our level of development is fairly obvious with tennis or piano playing, where it is impossible to pretend.

Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others, even for people who offend or do not love in return. If you are a parent, look at the love you have for the children you sacrificed for. Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. Proactive people subordinate feelings to values. Love, the feeling, can be recaptured.

But in the long run, people will trust and respect you if you are honest and open and kind with them. You care enough to confront. And to be trusted, it is said, is greater than to be loved. In the long run, I am convinced, to be trusted will be also to be loved.

Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

He measures our lives by how we love.

We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.

Powerful people can love without being loved back.

There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance.

Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love.

It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

Nothing is possible without love.