Quotes on Relationship

The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.

I would say get to know somebody who isn't exactly like you and doesn't come from the same background as you, educate yourself and then just keep showing up. Finding ways to show up for people and your voice will come out of that relationship and out of your pursuit to seeing people who aren't exactly like you.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself.

One of my main wishes in wanting to write about my mother was to explore the impact of her death on my life, explore our relationship, think about the different versions of myself that I was with and without her. I also had the really strong wish to bring her to life for my children, who were born after she was gone.

If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.

No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.

Tennis is the purest form of democracy. There was a symbiotic, chicken-and-egg relationship for me between democracy and tennis.

I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.