Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

You should only be in a relationship if it adds to your life.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

I'm definitely one of those chicks who want to be in a relationship. I need somebody who can make me laugh and entertain me.

When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.

I like being in relationship because of the comfort it provides.

I'm not searching for that magical Daddy, but I would like to find a partner in life, because I feel like finally I know what love is and what love isn't.

The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.

When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught.