Umera Ahmad Quotes

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

I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.

It's important to have frank discussions about what the other wants. To be in a relationship that is like a little lifetime, that's a challenge.

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

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.

You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.

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

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.

In every relationship, there are two perspectives to it.

My books are all relationship-focused, so much of my inspiration comes from my own relationships and the issues and concerns that arise among my friends and family.

We never know about anybody else's relationship and how they work - particularly the ones that work for a really, really long time. I was going to say only the people in it, but often, not even they understand how it works.

It's finding time for each other. That's the trick to any relationship, you know. Finding time to really be present for each other.

My relationships are fairly stable.

I think the most fascinating thing in terms of relationships is imagining all the different variations that they could be.

What I really like about Woody Allen's films is that there's a real investment in personal relationships. There is the idea that this is a serious concern worth making serious art about - how we love other people and how we can negotiate our relationships with them.

I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.

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

I have a very intense marriage.

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

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.