Quotes on Relationship

Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly _x000D_ themselves.

If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.

All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.

We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.

My best relationship is the one I have with myself. I know I am always connected to a Universe that loves me. I draw loving people and loving experiences to me.

Every pot must sit on its own bottom.

If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

If you want to kill something, neglect it. It happens in both good and bad. Neglect a relationship, it dies. Neglect your iman, it dies. But the same principal applies when you want to kill something like a thought or a desire. Neglect it, it dies.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

In love, for example - the so-called love - we are 'related.' We appear to be related. We create the fallacy of a relationship, but in fact we are just deceiving ourselves. The two will remain two. Howsoever near, the two will remain two. Even in sexual communion they will be two. This two-ness, this duality will never last. So a relationship is only creating a fallacious oneness. It is not there. Oneness can never exist between two selves. Oneness can only exist between two no-selves.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.