Quotes about Relationships

The love of sisters needs no words. It does not depend on memories, or mementos, or proof. It runs as deep as a heartbeat. It is as ever present as a pulse.

Maybe not everyone got the mom who baked cupcakes and showed up at all the school parties. There weren't enough of those to go around, so maybe God used other people, like Mrs. Lora and J. Norm, to make sure you learned how to shell a purple hull pea or find Saturn in the night sky.

No matter how much you want to cut your family out of your heart, you can't. The bond is born when you are born, like an organ in your body. There is no surgery to remove it. When it is diseased, you live with a dull ache telling you that something inside you is not right.

You only have to have two loves in your life: for God, and for the person in front of you at any particular time.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

The more you love, the more you suffer

For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly.