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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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"Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships."
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"The shortest distance between two people is a story."
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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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"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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"Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation."
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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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"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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"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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"If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all."
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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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"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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"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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"To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious."
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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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"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
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"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others."
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"Understanding is the other name of love. If you don't understand, you can't love."
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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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"Men are what their mothers made them."
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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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"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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"The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be."
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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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"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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"Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships."
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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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"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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"Colors are light's suffering and joy."
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"A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser."
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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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"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 women 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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"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."
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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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"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."
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"Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite."
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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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"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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"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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"For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake."
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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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"The only depth where I can breathe, and don't need to fight for air, is in your love."
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"A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats."
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"Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete."
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