Quotes About Keeping Relationships

#1. I'm not like you. I've never cared about keeping relationships or sparing people's feelings. All I've ever cared about is power: how to get it, and how to keep it. I told you as much when we met.

Rachel E. Carter

#2. Waking is no different than sleeping if all you do is dream.

Marty Rubin

#3. I've learned that just because I don't know how to break up with someone, doesn't mean they were worth keeping.

Steve Maraboli

#4. My experience is that relationships can be difficult, hard work. I love to be in a relationship.

Julie Delpy

#5. We know, we feel in our guts, that decisions are constantly being made which are going to wreck our ambitions, our dreams, our personal relationships. But the people making those decisions are keeping them secret, because if they don't they'll lose the leverage they have over their subordinates.

John Brunner

#6. Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a sentence, because of a tweet or even a retweet, you can be sued, you can be demonized by the media and you can even land in prison.

Elif Safak

#7. If you are keeping them because you can't forget a former boyfriend, it's better to discard or donate them. Hanging on to them makes it more likely that you will miss opportunities for new relationships.

Marie Kondo

#8. Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water.

Na

#9. Relationships are about give and take; not tit-for-tat. If you're keeping score, you'll lose at your own game.

Faydra D. Fields

#10. Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#11. The red flags are usually there, you just have to keep your eyes open wider than your heart.

April Mae Monterrosa

#12. If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.

Sarah Dessen

#13. Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

Saul Bellow

#14. There is too much at stake to chance rocking the boat by holding on to highly inflated expectations. Keeping our relationships intact and pretending they're successful, even if they aren't, is the price we must pay to harbor our deepest secrets.

Sarah Jo Smith

#15. Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.

Daniel Handler

#16. I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere.

Piper Perabo

#17. Getting a Lady is easy, but keeping a Lady is clever.

Pontius Joseph

#18. Good and safe" are all I have been during my romantic career, keeping myself virtuous outside of relationships never putting out before I had a commitment and a half dozen dates under my belt.

Valentine Glass

#19. Dating with no regrets means keeping your focus on Jesus, so that no matter what happens in your relationships with others, your relationship with God remains intact.

Debra Fileta

#20. You cannot see God until you notice people

Sunday Adelaja

#21. More than anything I wish he were here with me. "A relationship is an accumulation of shared history," he'd said to me once. And here I was making history without him. It's lonely. And I can't wait to go home. Parts of me are showing through my Aqua, and I'm having a hard time keeping them separate.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

#22. We were there, together, and in the next room I could hear that monitor beeping. Keeping track of another heart's beat and giving enduring, solid proof of our own.

Sarah Dessen

#23. Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.

David W. Earle

#24. One foundation of loving relationships is curiosity, keeping open to the idea that we have much to learn even about those we have been close to for decades.

Sharon Salzberg

#25. He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.

Chris Crutcher

#26. For me, when you are talking about perfect songs, you're talking about Gershwin, 'Someone To Watch Over Me.' Or Larry Hart and Richard Rodgers. Or some of the great Cole Porter songs, whether it's 'Night and Day' or some of the comedy songs. Or Irving Berlin, of course.

Maury Yeston