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I don't think it's healthy to have secrets; they hang over a family for generations.
— Viv Albertine
When I was 20, I moved up to Boston with my girlfriend, who's now my wife. She went to grad school, and I met a bunch of cool friends there.
— Kurt Vile
You give before you get.
— Napoleon Hill
There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.
— Paul Hoffman
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
— Edmund Burke
I have been blessed to have managed to make many good friends in the industry over the years. There are a few who are your best friends and you do have soul-friends too.
— Karan Wahi
You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.
— Frederick Buechner
Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent.
— Frederick Buechner
You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.
— Frederick Buechner
The faces we lose track of most easily are the faces of the people who are closest to us, the people we love the most whose faces we see so often that we can't really see them anymore.
— Frederick Buechner
We are all such escape artists, you and I. We don't like to get too serious about things, especially about ourselves. When we are with other people, we are apt to talk about almost anything under the sun except for what really matters to us, except for our own lives, except for what is going on inside our own skins. We pass the time of day. We chatter. We hold each other at bay, keep our distance from each other even when God knows it is precisely each other that we desperately need.
— Frederick Buechner
We are commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves, and I believe that to love ourselves means to extend to those various selves that we have been along the way the same degree of compassion and concern that we would extend to anyone else.
— Frederick Buechner