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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."
119
"Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships."
114
"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."
107
"Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation."
106
"The shortest distance between two people is a story."
102
"Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life."
93
"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."
92
"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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"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."
75
"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."
68
"True friends chop the onions and cry together."
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"To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious."
65
"Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it."
64
"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."
62
"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave."
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"Understanding is the other name of love. If you don't understand, you can't love."
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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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"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."
59
"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."
58
"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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"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
57
"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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"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?"
56
"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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"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
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"Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you."
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"Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic."
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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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"When people are like each other they tend to like each other."
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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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"I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren t whores, just mine."
51
"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others."
51
"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."
51
"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."
51
"Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite."
50
"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?"
50
"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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"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."
49
"I watched you undress. Shame on you!"
49
"She will never grow old, her heart is too beautiful."
49
"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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"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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"Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition."
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"Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person."
48
"You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them."
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