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Relationship Quotes
"Things we had, like respect and trust, but also freely expressed desires and accountability to whatever degree it took to make both people happy. It took work, a willingness to fight passionately and fairly--out of bed, not just in it--commitment and honesty. It took waking up and saying each day, 'I hold this man sacred and always will. He's my sun, moon, and stars.' It took letting the other person in; a thing I'd stopped doing. It took being unafraid to ask for what you wanted, to put yourself on the line, to risk it all for love."
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"Allow yourself to be an anchor and anchored by others."
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"Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice Her heart be sure is not of ice And one refusal no rebuff."
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"I didn't know what it was, who I was or who he was. I just knew what we could have become as one."
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"Love hurts. Love is fragile. Love comes like a breath of magic, then departs leaving us feeling empty, alone, a paper cup blowing on the wind."
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"Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.'The first one. I really resent being called the second."
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"The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold, just now the world became perfect!'-thus thinks every woman when she obeys out of entire love. And women must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it."
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"We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts."
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"...marriage is about becoming a team. You're going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you'll always figure out a way to get through it."
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"A relationship has to be nourished with passion, and built upon the foundation of trust, to be one that last a lifetime."
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"The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage."
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"Nobody knows you.You don't know yourself.And I, who am half in love with you,What am I in love with?My own imaginings?"
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"A living together becomes a living apart, when the pineal gland has not been able to create a luster of spiritual togetherness and emotional attachment. ['I wonder what went wrong.']"
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"It means little to anybody but us. We set store by kinfolk. We've our troubles from time to time, but when one of us is in danger, there'll be help from any who are around."
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"If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don't change because of it. It's just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it."
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"When both you and your spouse actively focus on developing godly character qualities, the foundation of your marriage will be twice as strong."
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"They say if the love is true, then it's easy. But that's false. Love is complicated. It's sticky. It's bliss and it's a mix of emotions. It's not easy."
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"Please don't cry, darling. I'd spare you tears for the rest of your life if I could."
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"Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?"
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"There had been moments when she felt he had almost forgiven her. She would always remember those moments."
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"Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects."
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"Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with."
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"Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer."
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"Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me."
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"Was it just her, or did lovers look more adoringly at each other in this city? Especially in the springtime.'Die, bastards.'She sighed. It wasn't their fault that they were bastards who should die."
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"I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other."
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"If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother."
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"The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. It is in this relationship that you set the standard for all others."
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"Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater."
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"Melly is the only woman friend I ever had, she thought forlornly, 'the only woman except Mother who really loved me. She's like Mother, too. Everyone who knew her has clung to her skirts."
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"Careful, Miss Cavanaugh,' he whispered. 'You don't know what you're asking.' He lowered his face to her neck, dragging his lips along her skin up to her ear. 'If I steal more from you, if I give you more, I'll want it all and won't let up for a very, very long time."
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"Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe."
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"He's a guy. We're easy and stupid. Just go bat your eyes at him and beg for forgiveness. It'll take five minutes, three if you wear something low-cut."
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"When Ego is in control it judges and punishes. But love forgives and heals. Surrendering, is one of the most powerful choices one can make.The doors of love only open for the person who is prepared to let his ego go. To surrender one's ego for someone else is love; to surrender one's ego for all is divine love."
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"In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'"
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"He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness."
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"Even though I think that Mia and I have enough secrets between the two of us at this point."
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"I am yours.Don't give myself back to me."
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"I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria.But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense.All friendships are negotiations of power."
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"I pat her on the head. 'Oh, naive little Kitten. Dear, foolish girl. This cookie is worth all this and more. Sit or you will not partake."
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"There is no fear in True Love. It is protective, and never gives a reason to doubt."
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"Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love."
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"Kat,' Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows.'Funny, I didn't hear a doorbell.''I let myself in; hope that's okay.'Hale smiled. 'Or the alarm.'She stepped inside, tossed a pocket-size bag of tools onto the bed. 'You're due for an upgrade.'Hale propped himself against the antique headboard and squinted up at her.'She returns.' He crossed his arms across his bare chest. 'You know, I could be naked in here."
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"She allowed me to understand I'd done everything I could for her, and that I, and everyone who loved her, had to step away and go on living.Now I know what she wanted from me on the day she told me she was afraid. It was exactly what I wanted when I had cancer and I thought I was going to die. I should have sat down next to her, put my arms around her, and told her that I loved her. That's all anyone wants. It took me a long time to figure this out. It's a complicated human puzzle. But it's never too late to know that love is all you need."
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"There's always be a me and you."
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"I think that when every person in this room looks at Ze'ev and Scarlet, they don't see a Lunar and an Earthen. We don't see an agenda, or two people trying to make a statement. I think we see two people who were lucky enough to find each other in this vast universe, and they weren't going to let any boundaries of distance or race or even physiological tampering get in the way of a happy life together."
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"It's my turn to see you through,' she whispers, coming back to me and wrapping me in her blanket as I lose my shit all over again. She holds me until I recover my Y chromosome."
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"What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman."
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"When you are your own best friend, you don't endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own."
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