Quotes about Relationships

I think it is interesting that God designed people to need other people. We see those cigarette advertisements with the rugged cowboy riding around alone on a horse, and we think that is strength, when really, it is like setting your soul down on a couch and not exercising it. The soul needs to interact with other people to be healthy.

We're all amateurs when it comes to love and relationships.

If I was going to make Betsy happy, I'd have to trust that my flaws were the ways through which I would receive grace. We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can't accept their imperfections can't accept grace either.

Love makes us both strong and weak at the same time.

Now people matter.

Never make an intimate friend of anyone who is not a friend of God.

The greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have to weep.

Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there.

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

To create a balanced and successful life, your vision needs to include the following seven areas: work and career, finances, recreation and free time, health and fitness, relationships, personal goals, and contribution to the larger community.