Quotes about Relationships

The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

Love creates an "us" without destroying the "me".

Marriage is earth's closest image for Heaven because it is all or nothing, forever - a leap of faith.

What we do is not as important as what we are. Our functionalistic modern society tends to reduce our being to our function. What is the first question we ask about someone? "What does he do?" But love never asks that question first. The first question for love is always "Who are you?" rather than "What do you do?" Being is prior to doing, and love's realism refuses to reverse that real order.

Love suffers far more for the pains of the beloved than for its own pains.

Not all prayer is in words, because not all conversation is in words.

But God loves men more than angels in intensity, because He became one of us

Love is strengthened and perfected by suffering. Couples who have had only ease lack depth. True love needs to suffer. "The course of true love never did run smooth." Kindness—mere kindness—cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

Live a life of love, especially the love of God, and observe the joy of it. Live a life of lovelessness and observe the joylessness of it.