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Relationship Quotes
"All men are fools, and all men are knights where women are concerned."
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"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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"Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life."
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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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"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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"The shortest distance between two people is a story."
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"Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships."
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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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"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."
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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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"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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"If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all."
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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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"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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"I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren t whores, just mine."
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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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"To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious."
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"Pick your friends like you pick your battles, wisely."
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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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"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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"Men are what their mothers made them."
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"Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
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"Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic."
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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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"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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"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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"Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency'."
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"The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be."
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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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"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."
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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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"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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"Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes it takes the shape of aloneness. Sometimes it takes the shape of love."
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"Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years."
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"When people are like each other they tend to like each other."
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"I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships."
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"If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours."
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"To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent."
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"Every one needs someone and there is someone for everyone."
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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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"I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly."
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