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Relationship Quotes
"I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships."
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"As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made."
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"The shortest distance between two people is a story."
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"Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships."
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"Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life."
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"Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation."
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"Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand."
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"The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers."
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"Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it."
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"To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious."
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"The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny."
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"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."
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"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
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"Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you."
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"Understanding is the other name of love. If you don't understand, you can't love."
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"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others."
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"Do not hold grudges against those who try to keep you down; the higher you go, the smaller they become. Do not trust those who try to push you down once you are up; the more envious they are, the more dangerous they become."
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"If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all."
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"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."
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"I simply took refuge among women. As you know, they don't really condemn any weakness; they would be more inclined to try to humiliate or disarm our strength. This is why woman is the reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal. She is his harbor, his haven; it is in a woman's bed that he is generally arrested. Is she not all that remains to us of earthly paradise?"
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"The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when."
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"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices."
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"And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught."
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"Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic."
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"When people are like each other they tend to like each other."
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"Colors are light's suffering and joy."
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"The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be."
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"Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover."
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"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
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"Men are what their mothers made them."
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"I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly."
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"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."
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"You can't force someone to care... You can only come to the realization that if you stay, they'll keep hurting you. I wish you the wisdom and courage to walk away and begin the healing process."
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"Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life."
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"Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships."
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"Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?"
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"We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that."
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"If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?"
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"It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting."
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"Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years."
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"Until then I had rejected him, refused him his own reality. He had been quite right to say that he, the only person on Gethen who trusted him, was the only Gethenian I distrusted. For he was the only one who had entirely accepted me as a human being: who had liked me personally and given met entire personal loyalty: and who therefore had demanded of me an equal degree of recognition, of acceptance. I had not been willing to give it. I had been afraid to give it. I had not wanted to give my trust, my friendship to a man who was a woman, a woman who was a man."
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"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
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"A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet."
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"Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip."No, the divorce was great, I said. "It was the marriage that sucked."
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"Who hasn't been told "love you?" I don't put much stock in such words because it's the "I" that gives "love you" its true essence and intimate meaning, so unless someone can bring themselves to say "I love you," don't subtract from the significance by saying something less."
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"Many marriages would have succeeded today but many of the individuals didn't have the equipment; the knowledge to use to fix the situation. No marriage is irreparable but most most people are just too tired to fix it. This why it is important for you to get understanding.In all your getting don't get love....get understanding first. Understand what it means to be a woman. Understand what it means to be with a woman. You need to understand the complexancy in a woman and the uniqueness in a man. Understand communication skills, understand how to manage emotions and how to handle anger, you have to understand the dynamics of disagreement , you have to understand how to handle unfaithfulness; broken trust, if you do not understand all these things, you will always be stocked in life."
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"Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship, entitlement and expectation will poison it."
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"The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. It is in this relationship that you set the standard for all others."
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"I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships."
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"Pick your friends like you pick your battles, wisely."
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