Because we are inwardly empty, dull, mediocre, we use our relationships and our social reforms as a means of escaping from ourselves. I wonder if you have noticed how lonely most people are? —Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things More about this quote Tags: loneliness relationships activism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
D’you know what happens when you hurt people? When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less. —Arundhati Roy in The God of Small Things More about this quote Tags: love relationships hurt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Laughter is the closest distance between two people. —Victor Borge More about this quote Tags: relationships laughter distance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. —Laurell K. Hamilton in A Stroke of Midnight More about this quote Tags: kindness relationships meanness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I began to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them — children, duties, visits, bores, relations: the things that protect married people from each other. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: love relationships people children marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Marriage is an extraordinary thing, and I doubt if any outsider — even a child of the marriage — has the right to judge. —Agatha Christie More about this quote Tags: relationships judgement marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It’s hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time. —Henry Rollins More about this quote Tags: relationships people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. —Audrey Hepburn More about this quote Tags: relationships companionship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. —Judith Martin More about this quote Tags: relationships Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down. —Wilson Mizner More about this quote Tags: wisdom relationships position Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. —Joan Baez More about this quote Tags: relationships intimacy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. —Sarah Addison Allen in Garden Spells More about this quote Tags: relationships experience loss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That’s love. A part of what makes it so awesome is the level of real, true intimacy, and the risk you take by opening yourself up that way to someone who has the power to gut you. —Lauren Dane in Inside Out More about this quote Tags: love relationships intimacy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We teach people how to treat us. If you don’t settle for anything less than respect, that’s what you’ll get. But if you let the douchebags walk all over you and treat you like you’re disposable, then that’s what you’ll always get. —Kristen Proby in Play With Me More about this quote Tags: relationships respect Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People loved you in the way they knew how—and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed. —Josh Lanyon in The Dark Tide More about this quote Tags: love relationships knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email