"For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and-by some sad, strange irony-it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy."

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"For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and-by some sad, strange irony-it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy."

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"Those who laugh with you when you laugh are acquaintances, those who cry with you when you cry are companions, and those who do both are friends."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Relationship, Friendship, Trust, Loyalty

"Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, cherish God."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Relationship, Family, Faith, Friendship, Support

"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."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Relationship, Man, Pleasure, Woman, Commitment

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

Toni Sorenson, American Author

Relationship, Friendship, Growth, Change, Separation

"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."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Relationship, Obedience, Trust, Communication, Respect

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

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Relationship, Love, Sex, Truth

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

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Relationship, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Regret

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"I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere." Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven." "Will it?" "If heaven existed." "Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly. "I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there."

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"The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul."

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"There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy."

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"There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one...Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started."

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"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."

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"Those who laugh with you when you laugh are acquaintances, those who cry with you when you cry are companions, and those who do both are friends."

"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."

Explore more quotes by E. M. Forster

"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."

"The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul."

"There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy."

"There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one...Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started."

"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."

"It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand."

"Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science."

"Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes."

"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."