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.
When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.
If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.
When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.
The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Greeks as feckless, promiscuous, modernizing lightweights, yet many Jerusalemites were already living the fashionable lifestyle using Greek and Jewish names to show they could be both. Jewish conservatives disagreed; for them, the Greeks were simply idolaters.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.
It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.
WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars.
One of the most destructive mistakes we Christians make is to prioritize shared beliefs over shared relationship, which is deeply ironic considering we worship a God who would rather die than lose relationship with us.
Using passion as your only fuel will no more assure you of success than being in love will ensure a successful long-term relationship.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me. ' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.
Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.
Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.
Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.
Every person is born with a seed of greatness.
We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.