Quotes about Relationships

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

That's one of the disadvantages of getting older; you're inclined to make intimate contacts with fewer people.

Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.

everybody happy and no one ever sad or angry, and every one belonging to every one else...

Mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters. But there were also husbands, wives, lovers. There were also monogamy and romance. "Though you probably don't know what those are," said Mustapha Mond. They shook their heads. Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy. "But every one belongs to every one else," he concluded, citing the hypnopædic proverb.

When the individual feels, the community reels, Lenina pronounced. Well, why shouldn't it reel a bit?

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

It is people who are important, not the masses.

When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

God put us here to go through this kind of mental gymnastics, and He certainly put us here to enjoy our sexual lives. He put us here to ask, to try and find out the best way possible to live with our neighbors. Of course, you can go through a life not asking, and that's the tragedy: so many lives lived in moral blindness.

Love is an exchange of gifts,' Saint Ignatius had said. It was in these simple, practical, down-to-earth ways that people could show their love for each other. If the love was not there in the beginning, but only the need, such gifts made love grow.