Quotes about Relationships

For many, the point of marriage isn't so much to be in love as to stop having to think of love.

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments. We have allowed our love stories to end way too early. We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.

A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.

There is valour in being able to identify a forgiving, hopeful perspective on one's life, in knowing how to be a friend to oneself, because one has a responsibility to others to endure.

He will need to learn that love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.

We must live with our enemies as if they might one day become our friends, and live with our friends as if they might some time or other become our enemies.

Compatibility is an achievement of love, it shouldn't be the precondition of love.

The whole language of love had been corrupted by overuse.

We have allowed our love stories to end too early. We seem to know too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.