Quotes About Giving Too Much In A Relationship

#1. I want everything or nothing. A life for a life, taking one and giving up another without hesitation and beyond recall. Or else better have nothing!

Ivan Turgenev

#2. There isn't much difference between "giving" and "leaving". While the former will ALWAYS come back to you, the latter will only do if it was meant to be yours in the first place.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#3. And if the object of one's desire is a relationship with God, his blessing and love, then the struggle cannot fail but ends in that self-giving to God, in recognition of one's own weakness, which is overcome only by giving oneself over into God's merciful hands.

Benedict, Pope XVI

#4. Who's he seeing now then?"
"No idea. They're like funfair goldfish; no point giving them names, they never last that long.

David Nicholls

#5. We want clarity
and God gives a call. We want a road map
and God gives a relationship. We want answers
and God gives His hand.

Ann Voskamp

#6. I do not want to give my power, my self-esteem, or my autonomy, to any person, place, or thing outside myself. [ ... ] The only thing that matters is how I feel about myself, my personal integrity, and my relationship with my Creator.

Ashley Judd

#7. ...for no matter whether the relationship was of short or long duration, no matter whether the partners were rich or poor, gay or straight, young or old, living together or married, giving up the relationship was hard for both people.

Diane Vaughan

#8. I have an interesting relationship with my voice. I give myself tons of freedom in how to engage with my voice because I respect it a lot.

Arca

#9. There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

Oscar Hammerstein II

#10. When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.

Lowell Bergman

#11. Stop making a relationship about what you get and start making it about what you give, for what you give is what you'll get in return.

Rob Liano

#12. The key to a good relationship is the key. Give me back the key.

Ronnie Claire Edwards

#13. When you trust and act on your intuition, you increase your self-esteem, build trust in yourself and experience a profound sense of security that no relationship or amount of money will ever give you.

Cheryl Richardson

#14. I think anyone who gives you relationship advice goes off of past relationships they have that didn't work. You've got to follow your own path.

Terrence J

#15. Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.

Colleen Hoover

#16. Love respects the other. It is a give-and-take relationship. Love enjoys giving, and love enjoys taking. It is a sharing, it is a communication. Both are equal in love; in a sexual relationship both are not equal. Love has a totally different beauty to it.

Rajneesh

#17. With regard to navigating relationship's highways and bi-ways - avoid changing lanes without first giving a signal.

T.F. Hodge

#18. I don't profess to know anything about marriage that anybody else doesn't know, or how to make it right. I don't want to read about somebody who's giving me relationship advice. So I try to keep some things for myself, to have a private life.

Scarlett Johansson

#19. Knowing so many people like myself who are singers and in traveling bands, the people you're in a relationship with feel slighted because they feel you're giving all your energy to your fans, and there's a lot of truth to that.

Kid Rock

#20. If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#21. The wisest married men give in early. They get in touch with the wife side of themselves, and that's when they stop arguing.

Bill Cosby

#22. The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Walt Whitman

#23. Any relationship (friend, romantic or business) that's one sided isn't one; it's a one way street headed in one direction ... nowhere. Cultivation requires input from willing participants.

T.F. Hodge

#24. Love is giving up control. It's surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two - love and controlling power over the other person - are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

Rob Bell

#25. There is nothing better than giving up everything and stepping into a passionate love relationship with God, the God of the universe who made galaxies, leaves, laughter, and me and you.

Francis Chan

#26. Relationships give us a reason to live. Revenge.

Ronnie Shakes

#27. If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a quiet devoted relationship to nearby life can give us.

Martin Buber

#28. The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

Barbara De Angelis

#29. Every relationship either gives energy to us or withholds energy from us, according to what we give to or withhold from it. And it's not only our behavior toward others, but our very thoughts about them, that builds and/ or destroys relationships.

Marianne Williamson

#30. I have a merely ethical and moral relationship to collecting. Whereby I never collect things that I necessarily like. I collect things by young artists who don't have any money because I need to give them some money! Because I think that they should carry on whether I like it or not.

Ryan Gander