Quotes about Relationships

Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions.

it's so important whenever you come into a new situation to get all the expectations out on the table.

He continually made deposits into each of our 'emotional bank accounts' with one-on-one dates and modeled that 'in relationships

it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm—to forget to plant in the spring, play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut. This principle is also true, ultimately, in human behavior, in human relationships. They, too, are natural systems based on the law of the harvest

in our relationships with others. It involves mutual learning, mutual influence, mutual benefits.

When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.

It says if you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative energy rather than empowering it.

Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb.

So the place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our Circle of Influence, our own character.

As you become truly independent, you have the foundation for effective interdependence.

My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection. But to take the child alone, quietly, when the relationship is good and to discuss the teaching or the value seems to have much greater impact. It may have been that the emotional maturity to do that was beyond my level of patience and internal control at the time.