More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as if a promontory were, as if a manor of the friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. -- John Donne, Meditation XVII

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. -- Jessamyn West

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same. -- Anon

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. -- Brenda Ueland

Relationships -- of all kinds -- are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold on to some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost. -- Kaleel Jamison

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands. -- Alexander Penney

Too many of us stay walled in because we are afraid of being hurt. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care as much or not at all. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Less serious quotes on relationships

"Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with." -- Author Unnamed

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it. -- Ann Bancroft

Any husband who says, "My wife and I are completely equal partners," is talking about either a law firm or a hand of bridge. -- Bill Cosby famous quotes on relationships

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way. -- Henny Youngman

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. -- Rodney Dangerfield

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. -- Milton Berle

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- GeorgeWhat's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds. -- Cindy Garner

When women are depressed, they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. -- Elaine Boosler

I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There was water in the carburetor." I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake." -- Henny Youngman

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller

My mother buried three husbands and two of them were just napping. -- Rita Rudner

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. -- Henny Youngman

People are always asking couples whose marriages have endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman. -- Erma Bombeck

Pearl Bailey
"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love."
"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."

Joan Crawford

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell."

Leo Buscaglia

"Perfect love is rare indeed -
for to be a lover will require that you continually
have the subtlety of the very wise,
the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist,
the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint,
the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."

Rabindranath Tagore

" I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."

Henry Van Dyke

"Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity."

Victor Hugo famous quotes on relationships

"Love is a portion of the soul itself,
and it is of the same nature as the
celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise."

"Life is a flower of which love is the honey."

"The reduction of the universe to a single being,
the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love."

D. H. Lawrence

"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly
and without law, and must be plucked where it is found,
and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."

Albert Einstein Quotes

"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love."

"How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."

Rainer Maria Rilke

"For one human being to love another:
that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks;
the ultimate, the last test and proof,
the work for which all other work is but preparation."

English Proverb

"Faults are thick where love is thin."

John Lennon

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."

Sophocles

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love."

Paul Tillich

"The first duty of love - is to listen."

Anais Nin

"The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud
is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom."

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

Louisa May Alcott

"Love is a great beautifier."

Marc Chagall

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist`s palette,
which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."

Cinderella

"Do you love me because I am beautiful,
or am I beautiful because you love me?"

Jacques Benigne Bossuel

"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."

Virgil

"Love conquers all."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"It's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."

"Love is the only gold."

Oscar Wilde famous quotes on relationships

"Men always want to be a woman's first love--
women like to be a man's last romance."

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless
garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of
loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life
that nothing else can bring."

"Who, being loved, is poor?"

Goethe

"Love is an ideal thing,  marriage a real thing;  a confusion of the
real with the ideal never goes unpunished."

Woodrow Wyatt

"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."

George Elliot

"I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved."

Sir James M. Barrie

"If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else.
If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

Leo Tolstoy

"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."

Mark Twain Quotes

"LOVE: The irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired."

Voltaire famous quotes on relationships

"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature
and embroidered by imagination."

Plato

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."

Charles Dickens

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires,
and a touch that never hurts."

Herman Hesse famous quotes on relationships

"If I know what love is, it is because of you."

Emily Dickinson

"Wild Nights! Wild Nights! were I with thee
Wild Nights would be our luxury.
Futile the winds to a heart in port, Gone with the compass
Gone with the chart--Rowing in Eden.
Ah the Sea! Might I but moor-- Tonight in thee."

Rollo May

"Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons,
longing, as all individuals do,
to overcome the separateness and isolation
to which we are all heir because we are individuals,
can participate in a relationship that, for the moment,
is not of two isolated selves but a union."

James Joyce

"I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he
asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first
I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so
he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was
going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes."