“Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.”
Relationships are where theory meets practice. These quotes cover romance, communication, conflict, trust, and the daily work of maintaining a connection with another imperfect human being who is also trying to figure things out.
“I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.”
“Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.”
“When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.”
“We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand. This is a lifelong relationship, and after 12 years she hasn't gotten rid of me yet.”
“A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.”
“Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.”
“I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?”
“It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.”
“There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top. I'm 20 years old. I was in a relationship with a girl I love for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.”
“When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.”
“You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.”
“Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.”
“In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.”
“Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.”
“We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
“Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.”