Relationship Truths Quotes

#1. An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

Adrienne Rich

#2. Journalism doesn't have to be your first love ... or your only love. You can come to it in desperation, because you can't think of anything better to do with your life, that it's this or the abyss. But once you get going ... it helps if you love it.

Robert Krulwich

#3. The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.

Alfred North Whitehead

#4. Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths.
Truth is a relationship.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#5. The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They make it easy to think of children as lumps of putty to be shaped instead of partners in a human relationship.

Steven Pinker

#6. When I hear the deepest truths I speak coming out of my mouth sounding like my mother's, even remembering how I fought against her, I have to reassess both our relationship as well as the sources of my knowing.

Audre Lorde

#7. Two people should see a relationship as a constant opportunity to improve and be improved. When lovers teach each other uncomfortable truths, they are not giving up on love. They are trying to do something very true to love: which is to make their partners more loveable.

The School Of Life

#8. One should not run on a new road.

Amelia Barr

#9. You are so fucking good for me and so fucking bad for me at the same time."
"It's not good if you don't have the mix of both.

S.E. Jakes

#10. It was a good apple too. A good apple, picked by a madman on a full moon night.

Steven Herrick

#11. It is hard to open yourself to someone who might really love you. I kept trying to drive Ken away and he kept passing the test by staying.

Erica Jong

#12. We believe that every relationship is unique unto itself, and thus even an attempt to think in types and forms is not going to express the essential truths of what happens when we love people.

Dossie Easton

#13. Some women are just better at knowing what they want, which saves them the trouble of wasting too much time on the wrong guy.

Alice Walsh

#14. Friendship's like a relationship between friends.

Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff

#15. Blaming guns for killing people is like blaming pencils for bad spelling

Larry The Cable Guy

#16. One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.

Ann Richards

#17. It wasn't closure, really. But I'd said the right things. I'd hit on some truths. Maybe some things didn't get closure. Maybe some things weren't really worth it, or didn't really need it, and after a while the unimportance would become obvious.

Vee Hoffman

#18. As important in a trusting relationship as the truths you share are the lies you never have to tell.

Robert Breault

#19. The action of a thing is the same as the naming of it - is, in fact, the real name. The trees creak and they are saying, 'trees creak through the long night.' The long night - what is it? Trees creaking. There wasn't anything that tied life's moments together, except life. And when it was gone?

Jesse Ball

#20. You're fucked up. I see that. I can see past it.

Mercy Celeste