resilience in relationships Quotes

When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all.

The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.

The more I suffer, the more I love.

You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it. But you'll be astounded to learn what the sea will do.' What do you mean?' she smiled. Well, love isn't a good sailor and it languishes on a sea voyage. You'll be surprised when you have the Atlantic between you and Larry to find how slight the pang is that before you sailed seemed intolerable.

She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: "I survived. Isn't that what matters?

Every relationship is messed up. What makes it really perfect is if you still want to be there when things suck.

A strong marriage requires loving your spouse even in those moments when they aren't being lovable; it means believing in them even when they struggle to believe in themselves.

Everybody kind of has to learn the same lessons. You've got to learn how to get over your first love. You've got to learn how to forgive people that emotionally abuse you. You've got to learn how to let go in a lot of ways.

But I'm not any better at relationships than you are. We'll find our way together, even if we're fumbling around in the dark for a while.

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

Have a short memory and a lot of forgiveness. Especially us girls who don't forget a thing. Move on.

cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.

I was so afraid that we would just keep colliding over and over again if we stayed together, and that eventually the impact would break me. But now I know I am like the blade and he is like the whetstone- I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.

Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.

I have been married to my wife, Paula, for 25 years. We have wonderful kids. Things are - it's been a really rich life, so I started thinking, is there a way to get valence a little more into the stories, the idea that, yes, things can go wrong, but also they can go right.

The hearts of some women tremble like leaves at every breath of love which reaches them, and they are still again. Others, like the ocean, are moved only by the breath of a storm, and not so easily lulled to rest.

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.

In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.