Famous Quotes & Sayings

James A. Baldwin

One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.

Gary Zukav

A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself.

Esther Hicks

Trying to hold onto any relationship as it was, keeps you from the joyous adventure of what it can become.

Esther Hicks

You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them.

Esther Hicks

Relationships are forever. They are eternal. Not just permanent in this lifetime. Once you establish a relationship, it is an eternal relationship.

Esther Hicks

When you feel WHOLE, things come to enhance your WHOLEness. When you feel broken, things come to enhance your brokenness. That's why you CANNOT FILL A VOID. That's why the premise from which you attract your relationship is so important.

Esther Hicks

We cannot focus upon the weaknesses of one another and evoke strengths. You cannot focus upon the things that you think they are doing wrong, and evoke things that will make you feel better. You've got to beat the drum that makes you feel good when you beat it. And when you do, you'll be a strong signal of influence that will help them to reconnect with who they are.

Esther Hicks

It's ever so much more satisfying to get into a blissful place and attract a blissful person and live blissfully hereafter than to be in a negative place and attract a negative partner and then try to get happy from that negative place.

Esther Hicks

If you make your relationship with your Inner Being your top priority, and you deliberately choose thoughts that allow your alignment, you will consistently offer the greatest advantage to others with whom you interact. Only when you are aligned with your Source do you have anything to offer another.

Ernest Hemingway

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

Ethel Percy Andrus

Human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Erma Bombeck

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

Faye Dunaway

I would like a partner but I can see myself without a marriage. I'd love to have someone to sit and talk with and walk on the beach with at 80.

Fats Domino

I use to love you honey, 'til you spent all my money.

Francesca Annis

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

Fran Lebowitz

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

George Strait

I should have checked the price tag before I gave them my last name.

George Strait

My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.

George Strait

All my Ex's live in Texas, and that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee.

George Plimpton

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

Garth Brooks

She's sun and rain, she's fire and ice, a little crazy, but it's nice. And when she gets mad, you best leave her alone, cause she'll rage like a river then she'll beg you to forgive her.

Garth Brooks

The crazy thing about it is she'd take him back, but the fool in him that walked out is the fool who just won't ask.

Garth Brooks

You were standin' way too close to see it fall apart. And there were things you couldn't hear, 'cause you were listening with your heart.

Frederick Buechner

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

Fiona Shaw

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

Henri Frederic Amiel

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

Helen Keller

Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.

Helen Keller

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Cat Stevens

Baby I know, the first cut is the deepest.

Cassandra Clare

Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd ever wanted to hurt any girl. In fact, he wasn't sure he had ever wanted to hurt a girl before. Usually he just wanted them, and then he wanted them to leave him alone.

George Eliot

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

George Eliot

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.