Quotes about Relationships

being connected in a shallow way to the entire world can prevent us from being deeply connected to those closest to us—including ourselves.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

I don't think it's healthy to have secrets; they hang over a family for generations.

You give before you get.

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent.

You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.

The faces we lose track of most easily are the faces of the people who are closest to us, the people we love the most whose faces we see so often that we can't really see them anymore.

We are all such escape artists, you and I. We don't like to get too serious about things, especially about ourselves. When we are with other people, we are apt to talk about almost anything under the sun except for what really matters to us, except for our own lives, except for what is going on inside our own skins. We pass the time of day. We chatter. We hold each other at bay, keep our distance from each other even when God knows it is precisely each other that we desperately need.