Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.

I love being around people who care about me, and I care about them.

A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

When I had dinner with a friend or a loved one and one of you pays for the check and the other says, "I owe you next time." I like to think that we're eternally even - that they don't owe me anything or I don't owe them anything if you have a connection with somebody or a love with somebody. I like to think that there's no debt to pay. You love each other and you're happy to pay for dinner every time.

Find someone to love . . . and, oh, someone to love you.

A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.

The roles we play in each other's lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us--the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share.

I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them.

In pursuing personal growth, there are issues where we can advance just so far by ourselves. At some point, our continued progress and improvement can only come about through relationships with others. Romantic love is an intense and intimate exposure to another person; if we can be who we want to be, even in that context, then our spiritual growth is exponentially expanded.

I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways.

If you are her man, she will talk to you until there just aren’t any more words left to say, encourage you when you’re at rock bottom and think there just isn’t any way out, hold you in her arms when you’re sick, and laugh with you when you’re up. And if you’re her man and that woman loves you—I mean really loves you?—she will shine you up when you’re dusty, encourage you when you’re down, defend you even when she’s not so sure you were right, and hang on your every word, even when you’re not saying anything worth listening to.

Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back.

Get the love you deserve and gave your partner the love and support he deserves

Lovers to-day and for all time Preserve the meaning of my rhyme: Love is not kindly nor yet grim But does to you as you to him.

Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one.

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.

The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.

Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you’ll find someone who loves you the exact same way.

To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.