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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."
148
"Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships."
148
"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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"All men are fools, and all men are knights where women are concerned."
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"Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation."
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"The shortest distance between two people is a story."
122
"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."
102
"Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life."
95
"You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them."
85
"The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny."
81
"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."
81
"True friends chop the onions and cry together."
74
"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave."
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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."
72
"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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"Faithfulness in Christian marriage entails that: great mortification. For a Christian man there is no escape. Marriage may help to sanctify and direct to its proper object his sexual desires; its grace may help him in the struggle; but the struggle remains. It will not satisfy him as hunger may be kept off by regular meals. It will offer as many difficulties to the purity proper to that state, as it provides easements. No man, however truly he loved his betrothed and bride as a young man, has lived faithful to her as a wife in mind and body without deliberate conscious exercise of the will, without self-denial."
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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."
68
"If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all."
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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."
67
"One man in a thousand, Solomon says.Will stick more close than a brother.And it's worth while seeking him half your daysIf you find him before the other.---The Thousandth Man."
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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."
63
"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."
63
"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."
62
"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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"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."
60
"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."
60
"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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"I think Raymond is very honest about human 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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"Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you."
58
"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others."
57
"Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic."
56
"People change spouses more often than they clean out closets. And every time they say, 'This is the one. This is the person I'm going to spend eternity with.' Then forty or fifty years go by and you're just sick of each other, utterly sick, and it's on to the next 'true love.' My question is what good is eternity if you are eternally falling in and out of love?"
56
"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."
56
"When people are like each other they tend to like each other."
55
"She will never grow old, her heart is too beautiful."
55
"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."
55
"Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place."
54
"I watched you undress. Shame on you!"
54
"I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly."
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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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"I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren t whores, just mine."
53
"You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes."
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"Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite."
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"How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them."
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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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