Relationships Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. - Она... они то разъезжаются, то опять... Всё время как на вокзале...(Витька Мохов - отцу Михаилу Мохову о своей матери) Застава на Якорном поле. Крик петуха.

2. - Ты хочешь знать, как быть, если сделал что-то не так? Отвечаю, детка: никогда не проси прощения. Ничего не говори. Посылай цветы. Без писем. Только цветы. Они покрывают все. Даже могилы. Three Comrades

3. ... how can one human being mean so much to another human being in terms of peace and assurance, as if loyalty were as real as gravity. Jack

4. ... love being a calm storm of heavy rain falling through warm air and sunlight hitting the black clouds from the west into rainbow, and sometimes sun came strong, and sometimes the clouds rolled deep, and life were two abandoned, scorched, and desolate souls holding out light in the darkness for one another, and sharing milk at the kitchen counter in that dark night; ...

5. ... Maureen managed to say: "It's not easy, pairing yourself off with someone forever. It's an admirable thing, and I'm glad you're both doing it, but, boy-oh-girl-oh, there will be days you wish you'd never done it. And those will be the good times, when it's only days of regret and not months. Gone Girl

6. ... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting. Palimpsest

7. … she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless.

8. ... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud. The Cave

9. ... Wait, the F in MILF doesn't stand for fathom???

10. ... we are facing each other. But you look at me and I look away from me. You look in and I look out. How to Break Article Noun

11. ....though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often utterly without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership....And that statement is equally valid for all relationships. Loving Each Other

12. ....whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same. Middlemarch

13. ...he prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for what had gone and would go and could be loved in no other way. When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too often refuse to acknowledge in one another, and out of this Saeed felt it might be possible, in the face of death, to believe in humanity's potential for building a better world, so he prayed as a lament, as a consolation, and as a hope.... Exit West

14. ...I try to incorporate life's lessons from everyone around me and pay it forward anytime I can. I look at every person I meet as a new and thrilling experience with which I'm gifted. Every new city or country or continent that I visit is a beautiful exploration from which I can learn. Every new client or project represents the possibility of meeting new people and having new adventures.

15. ...it is no great task to remember people--the challenge is in forgetting them and allowing one's self to -go on-.[Édouard Manet] The Lost Notebook of Édouard Manet

16. ...it is not always possible to restore one’s boundaries after they have been blurred and made permeable by a relationship: try as we might, we cannot reconstitute ourselves as the autonomous beings we previously imagined ourselves to be. Something of us is now outside, and something of the outside is now within us. The Reluctant Fundamentalist

17. ...It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in the shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him, you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you. Another Day

18. ...Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times... ...Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on... Quote on the Title Page of "Love TORN Asunder Love Torn Asunder

19. ...Next thing I know you've run off to Paris and thrown yourself under the nearest Frenchman- One Day

20. ...the soul is like Velcro, and when you brush up against someone else, especially when there are no clothes to separate you, part of you clings to them and part of them clings to you. Soon you find yourself carrying pieces of souls that you don't want and don't want you. But you can't help it. It's like being handcuffed to a stranger on the subway and your stop never comes.[Casey] The Record Keeper

21. …The time machine quietly disintegrated with leprosy of unsaid hurts and accusations that peeled back skin, muscle, and bone, snapping off love’s digits, fingers, arms, and legs in agonizing screams … Mechanical Bull

22. ...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week. Pegasus

23. ...These two images put together explain why men find women so threatening . The world comes out of your body and...' (he was waving the Mona Lisa at me) 'we have no idea what's in your head. Do you know how frightening that is? The Gap of Time

24. ...to understand and explore interpersonal relationships, we must do so in the context of our relationship with God. We were made by Him and for Him. The root of all conflict is our departure from God, and the resolution of all conflict must build from peace with God. Getting Along with People God's Way

25. ...we are taught to put fun and serious pursuits on a continuum as opposed extremes, when this dichotomy is entirely false, made even worse when we act as though we can instantly exchange one for the other...Exerting yourself at a task that is serious and rewarding can still be quite fun, but doing something fun because you have a neurotic need to pack your life full of un is pretty much a guarantee that any long-term benefits you derive will be entirely happenstance. Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless and Hopeful: An Introduction on Polyamory

26. ...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed. We Need to Talk About Kevin

27. ...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

28. ...човек невинаги може да възстанови личните си граници, след като е допуснал да бъдат размити и прекрачени от друго човешко същество в процеса на романтична връзка: колкото и да се опитваме не можем да възвърнем онази автономност на личността, която сме си въобразявали че притежаваме The Reluctant Fundamentalist

29. ..begin by talking about the kind of existentialist chaos that exists in our own lives and our inability to overcome the sense of alienation and frustration we experience when we try to create bonds of intimacy and solidarity with one another. Now part of this frustration is to be understood again in relation to structures and institutions. In the way in which our culture of consumption has promoted an addiction to stimulation - one that puts a premium on packaged and commodified stimulation. The market does this to convince us that our consumption keeps oiling the economy for it to reproduce itself. But the effect of this addiction to stimulation is an undermining, a waning of our ability for qualitatively rich relationships. Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

30. ..he may love you, he may miss you, but ultimately he's just not that into you. He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys