Quotes about Relationships

Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

The most important relationship you have in life is the one you have with yourself. And then after that, I'd say once you have that, it may be hard work, but you can actually design your life.

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".

You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business.

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.