Quotes about Relationships

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.

The happiest people are those who have harvested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.

Social Networking should never replace face-to-face time.

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

When we attach value to things that aren't love—the money, the car, the house, the prestige—we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless.

How a person seems to show up for us is intimately connected to how we choose to show up for them.

Love is to people what water is to plants.

There is, inside all our heads, the ego's rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.

Relationships are assignments. They are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth. He appraises who can learn most from whom at any given time, and then assigns them to each other. Like