Relationships Quotes

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'" "Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist a wonderful living side by side can grow if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky." "Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood" "Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you." "To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly" "It is a curious thing that at my age one begins to dread the dropping of acquaintances. Like a tree, which it is said must be spared any more cutting at its roots, one feels that one cannot bear to lose any more of one's friends." "The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life." "If we are inclined to forget how much we need other people, friends and family, holidays and parties all remind us." "The best cure for our loneliness is learning how to communicate and connect better with those around us." "Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other." "For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." "All companionship can consist only in the strengthening of two neighboring solitudes." "It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity." "It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you." "I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk."