Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Love is never easy. It never is. And I'm not just talking about girl and guy, girlfriend, boyfriend, husband and wife. I'm talking about family, friends - all of that.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

I think it can be fun to write about relationships just because so many people can relate to what you are feeling.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

Any relationship has its strengths and weakness.

Love, friendship, networking - these are all critical connections and the foundation of a healthy, happy life.

With friendship, it's hard sometimes - you don't outgrow your friends, but you do question how people are friends to you in different ways and how it's okay to cultivate other relationships outside of that.

In a marriage, we have to accommodate each other's views.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

I have a very intense marriage.

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages.

Danny and I worked really hard in the beginning of the relationship to find different levels of this couple.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and sister, or the brother and brother are facing. Relationships are universal.

We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were.

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.