Quotes about Relationships

If we cannot defend the things of this world and if none of the relationships in which we walk the earth can withstand the criticism which reduces the whole to relativity, we can still love them and we need take the criticism no more seriously than it deserves (pp. 29, 248).

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps

You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.

The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.