The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
Things must be felt with the heart.
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.
An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart
Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.
Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.
We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.
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