meaningful bond Quotes

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it.

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage.

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

But if it couldn't be love and it didn't feel like lust, what was it? Like? Did he like her? Of course, he did, but that word didn't capture his feelings, either. It was a little too... vague and soft around the edges. People liked ice cream. People liked to watch television. It meant nothing, and it didn't come close to explaining why, for the first time, he felt the urge to tell someone the truth.

Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and there isn't any one of us that doesn't need a crutch.

I've been loved in life, but all that matters now is that I'm loved by you." -Eva

The name of a person you love is more than language.

I am convinced, completely convinced, that there was nothing random about [the adoption], she is the daughter I should have.

Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

So the first thing to be reminded of: love is never a relationship. Then something else is masquerading as love. Maybe you are searching for a husband or a wife - you are searching for some security, you are searching for some structure. A structured life is a murdered life.

You've got to connect with the things that you love.

Love is the most powerful four letter word.

And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eternity. Who could ask for more?

Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is, there is no such thing as love. Love is an abstraction, perhaps a goddess or an alien being, although nobody has ever seen this goddess. In reality, there exists only the act of loving. To love is a productive activity. It implies caring for, knowing, responding, affirming, enjoying: the person, the tree, the painting, the idea. It means bringing to life, increasing his/her/its aliveness. It is a process, self-renewing and self increasing.

That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it.

This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.

An anniversary says, "Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments."

You are the best thing that's ever been mine.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

...that is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.

I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.