Adrienne Shelly Quotes

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.

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 have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.

A relationship succeeds when obstacles are met with communication and resolution. A relationship flourishes when we take the beloved as our teacher. Shared goals create a transformative, interwoven path.

If you are not willing to grow together, then the relationship will not survive.

In any relationship, there's multiple moving pieces. Not just one.

I have a very intense marriage.

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.

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.

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.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

Any relationship should have love, and if there is no love, it is better to call off a relationship. People say that love happens only once, but I don't believe in it because for me, if one relationship doesn't work, you should move on and seek love in another relationship. Who knows; you might find love in the second relationship.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.

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

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

Timing is everything with relationships.

I think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are what make it stronger, I think.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on some things, you're just going to have to agree to disagree. And when you go to bed at night, kiss each other and tell each other that you love each other. Don't go to bed mad. Life is too short. Keep it simple.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.