relationships quotes

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Disagreement is something normal.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.