quotations about dating
Dating is not only a wonderful time of life, but also a context for enormous spiritual and personal growth. You learn so much about yourself, others, God, love, spirituality, and life through dating. Done well, it can be fulfilling in and of itself. Done well, it can be one of the most fun and rewarding aspects of your life. Done well, it can lead to a good marriage.
HENRY CLOUD
How to Get a Date Worth Keeping
Dating is primarily a numbers game.... People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That's just the way it is.
HENRY CLOUD
How to Get a Date Worth Keeping
Most of us don't stop to think about what to look for in the dating process, and yet the choice of who to go out with and continue dating is probably one of the most important decisions we'll ever make in our lives. It is also, all too often, one of the most unconscious choices made.
NINA ATWOOD
Be Your Own Dating Service
Habits and attitudes established during the dating years generally carry over into marriage.
MYLES MUNROE
Waiting and Dating
He'd written me up a proposal of why dating him was a sound decision. It had included things like "I'll give up cigarettes unless I really, really need one" and "I'll unleash romantic surprises every week, such as: an impromptu picnic, roses, or a trip to Paris--but not actually any of those things because now they're not surprises."
RICHELLE MEAD
Spirit Bound
All men love to have difficulties to conquer in courtship.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
Sir Charles Grandison
Dating is an activity with a variety of purposes. For young people just beginning to participate in this activity, dating may be seen primarily or exclusively in recreational terms, devoted simply to testing one's attractiveness to the opposite sex and having fun, as the term "dating game" implies. However, eventually dating relationships tend to become more sustained and serious, and at some point dating begins to be seen more directly in terms of the goal of selecting a mate.
MARTIN KING WHYTE
Dating
There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.
SYLVIA PLATH
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Successful dating is not a destination, but rather it is a journey. This journey can either continue as marriage or friendship.
NOAH MITCHELL
The Nitty Gritty
Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
HENRY CLOUD
How to Get a Date Worth Keeping
Women become attached to men through the favours they grant them, but men are cured of their love through those same favours.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of Women", Les Caractères
Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.
GELETT BURGESS
The Maxims of Methuselah
Pushing for promises, when the person you're dating is reluctant or unsure, is a recipe for disaster. A relationship has to evolve at a speed that causes the least discomfort to the person going the slowest.
SHARON ROMM
Dating After 50
Dating with no intent to marry is like going to the grocery store with no money. You either leave unhappy or take something that isn't yours.
JEFFERSON BETHKE
Love That Lasts
Trying to combine parenting with early stage dating is like walking a tightrope while wrestling a dolphin: highly slippery, inadvisable, and just plain dangerous.
JOY BROWNE
Dating for Dummies
Triple dating is like double dating, with referees.
JACK NEARY
Jerry Finnegan's Sister
When I'm single, I don't focus. I focus on a guy if he's a boyfriend, but I don't focus on finding a boyfriend. They're never around when you want them.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
Seventeen Magazine, May 2007
The thing about dating is that it's hardly ever called a date. It's "let's hang out," "let's get together," "let's get some food," or "let's go get some beers." Those are all ways of asking someone out for a date.
SYLVIA HOWELL
How to Survive Dating
Dating is a battleground filled with deception and infidelity.
ANDREW S. TREES
Decoding Love
Dating is about casting a wide net. It's about having faith that there is someone out there for you and knowing you can help him find you.
LAURA DOYLE
The Surrendered Single