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0d3585d The relationship must come first or it will not last. laws-of-love relationships Chris Prentiss
646a614 To preserve what you have, to keep your relationships alive and glowing, give generously- give of your time, you assets, your attention, your help, and your love. Give of yourself. laws-of-love relationships self-improvement Chris Prentiss
6b2175c Trustworthy partners always think first before they do anything that may affect either the reputation or well-being of each other. relationships self-improvement trustworthy Chris Prentiss
01ec55c First-class relationships are possible only in an atmosphere of total trust. relationships self-help Chris Prentiss
06a73f6 Circumstances, luck, mutual need, affection and time played a part. No relationships were made in heaven. They were made because living things were looking for good company. And when you found good company, you valued it deeply and were responsible for its up-keep and well-being. relationships Robert Fulghum
b03dd10 There was a fine-tuning of Richard's and my temperaments during the years we lived with his heart disease, lymphoma, and lung cancer. Before, our differences had triggered sporadic tension; now our basic natures served us better. Our sensibilities and quirks evolved into something more shared and complex, more mingled. illness love relationships Kay Redfield Jamison
837ffed She's such a lovely woman, he'd tell me time and time again. I'd nod, because my mom is such a lovely woman. And charming and smart. Can't argue with any of that. She's also a fucking wack job. relationships Lisa Gardner
d6d68cf And I dare to believe that it really is. I dare to bet on us again. dare gamble love relationships second-chances Lisa Renee Jones
1cc4ea0 "In his 1964 talk on feminism, Winnicott says something he's been saying all along. "...We find that the trouble is not so much that everyone was inside and then born, but that at the very beginning everyone was on a woman." Winnicott sees this dependence as the root of misogyny--though he never uses that word. Perhaps, like Woolf with "feminism," he felt plain language was more persuasive. "The awkward fact remains, for men and women, that each was once dependent on a woman, and somehow a hatred of this has to be turned into a kind of gratitude if full maturity of the personality is to be reached." family feminism misogyny parents relationships Alison Bechdel
4d34dd5 Dingen die eenmaal weg zijn, kunnen niet teruggehaald worden, dat wist hij nu wel. Een klap, eenmaal uitgedeeld, kan niet worden ingetrokken. Woorden, eenmaal uitgesproken, kunnen niet onuitgesproken worden gemaakt. We mogen verdergaan alsof er niets verloren, niets gedaan, niets gezegd is, we mogen beweren het allemaal te vergeten, maar ons diepste wezen vergeet niet, omdat we voor altijd veranderd zijn. relationships Julian Barnes
901d20b But that was the nature of relationships: there always seemed to be an imbalance of one sort or another. julian-barnes power-dynamics relationship-dynamics relationships the-only-story Julian Barnes
15a0482 I suppose we never know what we have the capacity to forgive until we're truly tested. friendships relationships trials wisdom Elise Broach
e57a58e Dear God, I don't want my fear to be a barrier to the blessings you are trying to bestow. Cast out my fear, and help me to trust your perfect love. But also grant me a full measure of wisdom. Do not let me be led astray by my own desires. If it is not your will that I pursue a relationship with Levi, I pray that you will stop me. Make your message so clear that I cannot argue it away. Protect me, Lord, and show me the way I should go. faith-quotes godly-woman historical inspirational prayer relationships religion wisdom Karen Witemeyer
a2a1e4d Or perhaps it's the wickedness in him that she can't resist. There are such women. bad-men relationships Madeleine Brent
a7ed2cb Ah, Chantal... Now I think I know how it feels to fly on a trapeze. love relationships Madeleine Brent
305a888 She gives me meals that stick to my ribs. She don't forget to put salt in the porridge. She never slams doors, and when she has nothing to say, she don't talk. That's uncanny in a woman, you know, Mister. relationships women-s-roles L.M. Montgomery
42605f8 Each person if he was lucky found the place where he could shine, and the person he could shine on. At Cranley Gardens Johnny had been audience, to Evert, to Ivan, to the whole clever, memoir-swapping gang. But with Pat he was a closely attended performer - he was funny, almost articulate, and rich in things worth saying. loss love marriage relationships Alan Hollinghurst
0061ca1 Humans have a tendency to look for things in the places where it is easiest to search for them rather than in the places where the truth is more likely to be found. relationships truth Esther Perel
8b463fb At their peak, affairs rarely lack imagination. Nor do they lack desire, abundance of attention, romance, and playfulness. Shared dreams, affection, passion and endless curiosityall these are natural ingredients found in the adulterous plot. They are also ingredients of thriving relationships. It is no accident that many of the most erotic couples lift their marital strategies directly from the infidelity playbook. marriage relationships Esther Perel
b6a3d91 I was familiar with the little mating rituals of getting to know each other, of dragging out the stories from childhood, summer camp, and high school, the famous humiliations, and the adorable things you said as a child, the familial dramas--of having a portrait of yourself, all the while making yourself out to be a little brighter, a little more deep than deep down you knew you actually were. And though I hadn't had more than three or four relationships, I already knew that each time the thrill of telling another the story of yourself wore off a little more, each time you threw yourself into it a little less, and grew more distrustful of an intimacy that always, in the end, failed to pass into true understanding. identity love nicole-krauss relationships Nicole Krauss
b593120 "You're the only person who means anything to me in the whole world, you're all I've got..." "Well then you've got nothin." love meaning nothing relationships Garth Ennis
4ebd1f2 Usaldus pole mitte uksnes juhtimissuhete, vaid koigi suhete vundament. Sa ei saa mojutada inimesi, kes sind ei usalda. Sa ei saa rajada positiivseid suhteid inimestega, kui neil on sinust negatiivne pilt. Usaldus on liim, mis hoiab inimesi koos. relationships trust usaldus John C. Maxwell
821fc1f The basic rules of male-female relations were imparted atmospherically in our family, no direct speech allowed. male-female-relationships men-and-women poem poetry relationships sex Anne Carson
cedda3f A newcomer could ascertain the identity of a town's true leaders - which storekeeper was respected, which farmer was listened to other farmers - only through endless hours of subtle probing of reticent men. leadership relationships retail-politics Robert A. Caro
a71257d "The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as "seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand." job relationships vocation Robert A. Caro
f91b93c Fool! Never wait on a man! Let him wait on himself! grandmother love man-and-woman relationships V.C. Andrews
d3caf31 How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer - you can finish the business yourself, from withing yourself. It's not only possible, it's essential. love relationships Elizabeth Gilbert
dc9fa90 Every relationship is an education. Each new person we welcome into our hearts is a chance to evolve into something radically different than we used to be. relationships Brian K. Vaughan
be369e1 At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now? No other question is relevant, no other question is meaningful, no other question has any importance to your soul. decisions decisions-in-life fork-in-the-road how-to-decide juncture love making-decisions relationships which-way-to-go Neale Donald Walsch
918722d "What do you call the weak point?" He paused. "The fact that the average American looks down on his wife." humor marriage relationships undine-spragg weak-point Edith Wharton
c9d3e01 "Donner Party Forsaken, fucking in the cold, eating each other, lost runny noses, complaining all the time like so many relationships Richard Brautigan
fcdd835 - Love, which is a kind of permission to come closer than ordinary norms of good behavior might usually sanction. - Back rubs. - Which enables us to see each other without clothes on, for example, in lust and shame. - Examining perfections, imperfections. - Which allows us to say wounding things to each other which would not be kosher under the ordinary rules of civilized discourse. love relationships romance Donald Barthelme
6dcb0e7 She was such a solitary woman. A solitary woman who longed for one person to know her. I think I do know her now, but it is too late. loneliness relationships solitude understanding Jeanette Winterson
3ca45d8 Pray that your marriage is one in which you both agree & that God will be in the center of it husband love marriage power praying relationships Stormie Omartian
8ce7a28 That's what I've noticed about being 32: it is a lot of women and a lot of boys our age. relationships Mindy Kaling
4b5b364 The apartment is a laboratory in which we conduct experiments, perform research on each other. We discover Henry hates it when I absentmindedly click my spoon against my teeth while reading the paper at breakfast. We agree that it is okay for me to listen to Joni Mitchell and it is okay for Henry to listen to the Shaggs as long as the other person isn't around. We figure out that Henry should do all the cooking and I should be in charge of laundry and neither of us is willing to vacuum so we hire a cleaning service. married-life relationships Audrey Niffenegger
0e9b3c5 We shape each other to be human. humanity relationships Ursula K. Le Guin
28d9593 Their walking relationship was unnatural, but they were too fearful to seat themselves at a restuarant to share a meal, for they knew that restaurants in our country are the principal target of the active and increasingly familiar morals committees that harass people of every nationality who live in Saudi Arabia. Such committees are composed of menancing men who unexpectedly surround and enter eating establishments, demanding identification of the restaurant patrons. If proof is not forthcoming that the men and women sharing a table are not husband and wife, brother or sister, or father and daughter, these frightened people will be arrested and escorted to a city gaol, with punishment freely given. The legal penalties vary according to the nationality of the 'criminal'. Muslim offenders can be flogged for their social misconduct, while non-Muslims are gaoled or deported. feminism muslim oppression relationships royal-family society women Jean Sasson
b8ff7e2 I have known both of you all your lives, have carried your Daddy in my arms and on my shoulders, kissed and spanked him and watched him learn to walk. I don't know if you've known anybody from that far back; if you've loved anybody that long, first as an infant, then as a child, then as a man, you gain a strange perspective on time and human pain and effort. Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father's face, for behind your father's face as it is today are all those other faces which were his. Let him laugh and I see a cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember and I hear in his present laughter his laughter as a child. Let him curse and I remember him falling down the cellar steps, and howling, and I remember, with pain, his tears, which my hand or your grandmother's so easily wiped away. But no one's hand can wipe away those tears he sheds invisibly today, which one hears in his laughter and in his speech and in his songs. inspirational parenting relationships James Baldwin
fba86ed El secreto de la felicidad, o, por lo menos, de la tranquilidad, es saber separar el sexo del amor. Y, si es posible, eliminar el amor romantico de tu vida, que es el que hace sufrir. Asi se vive mas tranquilo y se goza mas. relationships sex Mario Vargas Llosa
27a5436 a single outburst does not produce a difficult relational environment. It is only when a parent [or anyone] repeatedly and regularly uses anger to close conversations, in the broadest sense of 'conversation,' that a dilemma is framed. When a parent [or partner] uses anger or the threat of anger to dominate the emotional atmosphere, then even potentially good conversations with them lose spontaneity, openness and honesty. anger attack domination emotional-abuse parents relationships spouses Terri Apter
db1de94 School in itself is a microcosm of society. These kids bring a lot of baggage with them, and as teachers with 30 plus kids in your classroom you have to take the time to get to know them, and not just see them as people you have to teach. And if they want to learn they will learn, and if they don't want too then too bad. But you have to see them as your surrogate children. Charles Chuck Mackey, former vice principal and coach of R. M. Bailey Pacers... children classroom education homeroom-teachers learning microcosm-of-society relationships school-principals schools students surrogate-children teachers Drexel Deal
7032448 Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors. compassion leadership relationships visuals Barbara W. Tuchman
a26c5bd "The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see "show up", not what part of another you can capture and hold. There can be only one purpose for relationships - and for all of life: to be and to decide Who You Really Are. [...] The test of your relationships has had to do with how well the other lived up to your ideas, and how well you saw yourselves living up to his or hers. Yet the only true test has to do with how well you live up to yours. Relationships are sacred because they provide life's grandest opportunity - indeed, its only opportunity - to create and produce the experience of your highest conceptualization of Self." friendships people-relations people-skills relationship-advice relationship-quotes relationships Neale Donald Walsch
8359f2c Other people were so unsuccessful at fending off love! Members of Congress who had affairs with their aides, or students who I'd known in college, girls who as freshmen declared themselves lesbians, then graduated with boyfriends- to give in to such love represents, for them, a capitulation or a betrayal, yet apparently the pull was so strong that they couldn't resist. That was what I didn't understand, how people made the leap from not mattering in each others' lives to mattering. relationships romance sexuality Curtis Sittenfeld
b285ea6 You may find that yes, your partner tends to shout easily, but the shouting contains no malice and passes quickly. Perhaps your partner's short fuse does not prevent them from being loving and supportive. In that case, you may have found a gem whom others have avoided because they cannot get past the bursts of temper. But if you find that time after time, a partner or close friend disappoints you by being just like a difficult parent, then you would do well to consider whether you are selecting someone who helps you reproduce that difficult relationship. anger parent relationships shouting Terri Apter
cf6f0c0 A man has never told me he likes me. Like is more interesting than love. relationships Roxane Gay
85b36d9 The partition between love and anger is thin. I suppose it's a need to protect the self from further wounding that makes people scream at the one they love. anger-and-love love relationships Sebastian Faulks
bccf5b9 She was her own Enigma Code and me and my dad were not Bletchley Park. mothers mysteries relationships understanding Jeanette Winterson
b74e3a1 He smiled as he imagined the composite Jamie/Isabel, who would play the bassoon, read philosophy, interfere in other people's affairs rather too much, drive a green Swedish car and make legendary potatoes Dauphinoise. relationships Alexander McCall Smith
2ed0e7b You stop talking about things when you've worked them out. You're no longer an observer but a participant. You're too busy for this bullshit. relationships Caitlin Moran
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