Top 1200 Abusive Relationship Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.

I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.

Men have been intimidated by my relationship with Howard. You know, it's hard for them to imagine that they could be number one, seeing this relationship.

The relationship I have to everyday life is very European. We have a different relationship with religion, with faith, with nudity, with sex, with food.

Not having a great relationship with my brother Aaron, or what people think that relationship should be, didn't define me.

My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.

Me and Kanye have a relationship - not as close as him and Trump, but we have a relationship.

We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.

I view the relationship with Canada as a vital relationship for the United States. The relationship, of course, is defined government-to-government. It's also defined people-to-people, and there's a lot of people in my country who respect Canada and have great relations with Canadians, and we intend to keep it that way.

Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.

If I have to give up good fashion for a relationship, I don't want a relationship.

We have a relationship with our customer, and that relationship translates into sales.

Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.

The squirrels on campus were beyond domestic; they were practically domestically abusive.

Yoga is a part of who I am. It has given me a permanent relationship. A relationship between my body, my mind, and my emotions.

The only and dearest relationship is the mind's relationship with itself.

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

Relationship is the mirror: see your face there. Always remember relationship is the mirror. If your meditation is going deep, your relationship will become different - totally different. Love will be the basic note of your relationship, not violence. As it is, violence is the basic note. Even if you look at someone, you look in a violent way. But we are accustomed to it.

The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.

My relationship with the track was, I would say, at least fractionally as complicated as my relationship with my old man. So it kept me coming back.

A relationship with lots of pain, it's not a relationship that will last long.

I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.

Am I in a relationship? Yeah. I'm already in a relationship with everybody that likes me.

Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.

Any person in a relationship has to see what they gain from those things and if it's worth what you have to sacrifice to be in a relationship. I don't think that's a terrible thing.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics which have made the relationship between the United States and Israel a special-even on occasion a wonderful-relationship ... The United States admires Israel for all that it has overcome and for all that it has accomplished. We are proud of the strong bond we have forged with Israel, based on our shared values and ideals. That unique relationship will endure just as Israel has endured.

There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

If people want to legalize a particular relationship, we need to be careful if that kind of relationship has been disapproved for millennia.

The purpose of relationship may not be what you think. If you are excited about forming a relationship based on what it looks like you can get, rather than what you can give, you have started off on the wrong foot entirely, and you could be heading for a big disappointment. The purpose of all relationships is to create a sacred context within which you can express the fullness of who you are. And who you are is an experience you have before you enter relationship, not because you did.

The relationship with yourself is the most important relationship you’ll ever have.

My dad sacrificed his relationship with me so I'd be stronger for it. But I could never do it to my kids - I like to have a happy relationship with them.

I have an odd relationship with motherhood. I've never had that relationship of this unconditional friendship, deep bond that you have with somebody, but I have it now with my son.

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

My job is to enforce the laws as passed by whom? Congress. They give me my authority. That's the jurisdictional responsibilities that I have, and when litigation is used to regulate... that's abusive. That's wrong.

I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.

My family - it wasn't an abusive family - they meant well, but they were in their own world.

Abuse counselors say of the abusive client: “When he looks at himself in the morning and sees his dirty face, he sets about washing the mirror.

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

My relationship with Laporta? I always had a direct relationship with him, in that if I said something, we would be able to discuss it like men.

I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their identities and experiences.

It's not a coach relationship: he's a mentor; it's a life relationship. If I didn't make it in fighting, I didn't have anything else to fall back on.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.

The artist-audience relationship is the most valuable thing, and anything you can do to fuel the long-term potential of that relationship is of value to you.

It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship.

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.

When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

There's no relationship that I find that's closer than a creative relationship.

Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.

Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.

There has never been a merging of two lives where significant problems of daily living did not occur. One way or another, your relationship is going to be affected. The only question is how. There's a big difference between knowing and doing. It's not what happens between partners that determines the outcome of a relationship, it's how they handle what happens. If all you deal with in your relationship is problems, then you will have a problem relationship. If you want your pound of flesh with full acknowledgement that you're right, your future will be dim.

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.

I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.

He was an abusive father. He was never a father to me growing up as a kid.