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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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"All men are fools, and all men are knights where women are concerned."
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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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"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 shortest distance between two people is a story."
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"It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species."
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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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"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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"Never, never marry, my friend. Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the woman you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing. Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost."
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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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"If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all."
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"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."
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"True friends chop the onions and cry together."
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"To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious."
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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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"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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"Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants."
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"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave."
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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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"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
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"Understanding is the other name of love. If you don't understand, you can't love."
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"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
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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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"Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite."
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"It is weird to see how people sometimes doesn't value and ignore the love and effort of the people who love them and try to stay. They push them away only to realise everything they did after they leave and make their memories as pillows to sleep over and cry upon it later."
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"I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren t whores, just mine."
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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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"Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic."
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"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others."
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"Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love."
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"She will never grow old, her heart is too beautiful."
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"Don't turn a blind eye to those that empathize; that care when no one else does, because it could lead to a very satisfying and meaningful relationship, with profound levels of loyalty."
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"Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you."
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"We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie."
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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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"They tell me you're the best and the worst thing to have happened to me, but I do not see how it can be both. For if my death resulted from your presence, an everlasting sleep would have me dreaming happily of us together. I see no bad in that. Therefore, you must be the best thing to have ever happened to me because you make the worst seem wonderful."
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"The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you."
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"I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships."
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"Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person."
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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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"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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"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
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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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"Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all."
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"I watched you undress. Shame on you!"
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"Men are what their mothers made them."
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"Most people are willing to promise you a lot. A few are those who can promise you a little, just as much as they can."
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