Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carly Simon

You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.

Eustace Budgell

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Gillian Anderson

So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.

Gillian Anderson

You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.

Gillian Anderson

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.

Frank Zappa

Gave my money all to you, took my watch and pawned it, too.

Fred Rogers

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.

Fred Rogers

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.

Jim Butcher

Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.

Jay Leno

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

Mindy Kaling

True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.

Judith Butler

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

Myles Munroe

Once a man and woman have married, the only thing they should receive from their parents is advice and counsel, and then only when they ask for it. Parents should not offer opinions or advice without being asked.

Myles Munroe

Love in marriage is more than just a feeling or an emotion; it is a choice.

Myles Munroe

We each were endowed at birth with a unique gift, something we were born to do or become that no one else can achieve the way we can. God's purpose is that we bear abundant fruit and release the blessings of our gift and potential to the world.

Myles Munroe

Headship is not rulership; it is leadership.

Myles Munroe

You do not have to marry in order not to be alone- all you need not to be alone is to have some other humans to be your companions and close friends.

Myles Munroe

Every person is born with a seed of greatness.

Myles Munroe

God had no problem with the man's separateness, his uniqueness, or his wholeness.

Myles Munroe

If we are focusing on our needs, the relationship is in trouble.

Myles Munroe

The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness.

Myles Munroe

Marriage will not solve "aloneness."

Myles Munroe

If we get into the habit of thinking of ourselves as always owing a debt of love to our spouses, we will be less inclined to take offense when they say or do something that we do not like.

Myles Munroe

Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down.

Myles Munroe

It is therefore vital for you to understand that being single-" separate, unique, and whole"- is most essential to, and the foundation of, not only marital relationships but all relationships.

Myles Munroe

When trying to communicate with each other, a husband and wife should be careful to make sure their voices and faces agree with their words.

Myles Munroe

Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

Myles Munroe

A woman says what is on her heart while a man says what is on his mind.

Myles Munroe

Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.

Myles Munroe

For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.

Myles Munroe

No matter how good or bad we may feel, no matter how up or down we may be, Christ loves us, accepts us, and thinks the world of us.

Myles Munroe

A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.

Myles Munroe

Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.