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"One foundation of loving relationships is curiosity, keeping open to the idea that we have much to learn even about those we have been close to for decades."
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"Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, cherish God."

"Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship."

"Man loves pleasure. But women desire purposeful commitment."

"Just because our friendship has changed and now we grow in different directions, does not mean that we have to grow apart."

"And someone he scarcely knew moved towards him and knelt beside him and whispered, 'Sir, was you calling out for me? Sir, I know I know,' and touched him."

"Everyone comes with baggage, marry the one whose baggage weighs the least."

"A relationship is not just about sex " it is much more than that. Sex is only a tool in love, not love itself."

"It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too."

"When someone is hard on you it may have very little to do with you."

"It's funny how they thought we were dating," Colin said, glancing over at her."How's that funny?" she asked, holding his gaze."Um," he said. Distracted from the road, Colin watched as she gave him the slightest version of her inimitable smile."
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"When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring."


"The good news is that opportunities for love enter our lives unpredictably, whether or not we've perfected self-compassion or befriended our inner critic."


"We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love."


"Love simply, perpetually exists and that it's a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it."


"When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love."


"I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through."


"Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was."


"The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence."


"Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you you won't stand up for other people."


"I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all."
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