Quotes about Relationships

Love and Pain go together, for a time at least. If you would know Love, you must know pain too.

If a person has known love, has felt and given love, that person's life has made a difference.

To be a husband or wife, to be a parent, is inevitably to be aware of so many disappointing, exasperating things about your mate or child, but at the same time to see those people in depth, to see them with both eyes, and to be reminded of why you still love them.

We need other people, and we need to be needed by other people, in order to be who we might be, who we yearn to be.

Both love and true friendship are more than a way of knowing that we matter to someone else. They are a way of mattering to the world, bringing God into a world that would otherwise be a vale of selfishness and loneliness.

The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.

One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.

That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfection, or if they do that to us, we will end up far lonelier than we want to be.

We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.