There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.
Great stories build relationships and make people care. Those two things are necessary to change anything.
If we have a relationship with Jesus Christ and believe the Bible to be the Word of God, then we have no room for wallowing in the swamp of self-pity.
This is why some relationships look so beautiful and some look so tragic — beauty belongs to the thoughtful; tragedy to the neglectful.
You can choose better relationships, better jobs, better places to live, better uses of your time and better ways of treating yourself.
The greatest things that have ever happened in this world, had their genesis in the wake of special relationships of rare destiny.
Every success and failure of any relationship is two-sided. No matter how thin, the pancake always has two sides. Yes, I blew my marriages. And so did they.
God desires to have such a close and intimate relationship with Him, and He wants to be the first place you go to and be your place of peace and rest.
I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships.
Life, weddings, relationships, road trips, gardening, making out, haircuts: few of the fun things in life always go as expected.
A one-winged butterfly can’t fly. Neither can a half a heart love, or a half-hearted relationship work.
I was always moved when mean people were suddenly nice to me. It was a weakness that would lead me into some bad relationships later in life.
I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.
Age does not matter in most relationships, but in marriage, it matters a lot. If you marry a younger you have to baby sit, and if you marry an older, you have to follow orders.
There are things you forget naturally-computer passwords, your father's continuing relationship with life-and then there are things you can't forget that you wish you could.
When you're single, your weekend days are wide-open vistas that extend in every direction; in a relationship, they're like the sky over Manhattan: punctured, hemmed in, compressed.
The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one's desire for escape and abstinence from one's addiction.
I believe the meaning of life is the relationships we have with each other."
Each relationship is an elaborate and complex dance of energetic exchange.
You have to stop thinking that way. Don't worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that's the biggest power you can have.
