Quotes on Relationship

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship - because relationships happen one day and disappear another day. They are flowers; in the morning they bloom, by the evening they are gone.

If you're not perfectly conscious of yourself, that self can be tyrannical; in relationship to others, anyone can become a tyrant. That's why no one can be a Superman. You have to go beyond yourself with a 'third eye' - self-awareness - because the one thing you cannot flee is yourself.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Mary and Jesus had this extraordinary relationship between them. What a teacher Mary is, really. It is the ultimate trusting; that she had to trust God, that she was so privileged to be the mother of the Savior, that she had to stand there as a mother and watch her son being murdered and trust that that is what he came to do.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

Women’s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind

If you truly want to find a meaningful relationship, you've got to find yourself first and learn to be confident in your own skin. Don't sacrifice anything about who you are to be with someone. That's setting yourself up for failure.

When it comes to our relationship with loneliness, specifically, it's important to understand how our relative introversion or extroversion informs our preference for social interaction.